Astounding! In today's blogpost find topics from Tod Browning's 1932 film "Freaks" to Djuna Barnes' Nightwood to the biblical story of Zacchaeus. What do they all have in common? Read about it at blog.amynelsonhahn.com and see some photos of an interesting tree in Central Park.
Crooked tree
Bent earthward
like a kneeling devil,
all your proud top
is like to come undone
and scatter to the crowd --
who made you humble?
who forced you to bow down?
Such ungainly displays
are fit for circus tricks
and uncomfortable angels
writhing on the ground.
Hapless and untoward,
why can't one raise you
to respectful height
unless, shirking here, you prefer
the wizened level?
Copyright (c) 2011 Amy Nelson Hahn
view with images 1907 and 1908 from photos.amynelsonhahn.info or visit blog.amynelsonhahn.info
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