By: by Sean Fraser
It is a Conte de fées of Zoë on a promenade through Avallon and Les Ardennes in France, 1913. Divertissement: France, 1913 — It is, by Nature, in the stillness of the first Season all plots are laid, Winter: they are with obscure coruscalences by zoetrope set against that canvas of nebulæ in the murmuring Dark.
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By: by Sean Fraser
It is a Conte de fées of Zoë on a promenade through Hookland (England), Mâcon (France), and Bucarest (Romania) in 1913. Interlude: France, 1913 — The Melancholia influent had passed and those who would set intrigues from Orbis paradisiacus were silenced; the arrangements of Change originating in 1871 were concluded by those of Orbis limbus; and, so it was that Life continued as before in Praesentis vagus as Humanity waxed obsolescent by Man’s contrived magnificence and mores.
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By: by Sean Fraser
It is a Conte de fées of Zoë on a promenade through Saint-Étienne, Lyon, and Clermont in France, 1913. Entr’acte: France, 1913 — Les Dæmons æternels in this play shall perform as they have for centuries done; and, these acts, in which they are seen in this Modern Age, that may have been written in custom-houses of Lunacy when in other times were written in athenæums sublimis ab undaes, shall succor those affrighted and dismayed.
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By: by Sean Fraser
It is a Fairy tale of Zoë on a promenade through Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Vese, Grand Canyon-du-Verdon, Zone-Saint-Cloud, and Tournon in France, 1913. L’Ancien Régime: France, 1913 — Modern vicissitudes in les Belles Époques had ascended in a progressive era which begat the Machine Age. Presidents, Lords, Kings, Courts, Parliaments and Congresses and Leagues were belaboured against the Senses of Reason and Logic as they indulged with the Seven Deadly Vices: Sloth, Jealousy, Greed, Ignorance, Intolerance, Despair and Fear; and, in the intrigues performed, they would be sent forth on that voyage where all are passenger.
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By: by Sean Fraser
A Concrete Verse poem which may be considered an elegiac Idyll on Beauty as Idée was written over a Thirty-year Entr'acte. It was composed of and with occurrences that began in 1963 of which some lines may be found in poems from "Miss Crabtree's Daughters" and "On the Nature of Existence". Light as ponderous settling fog obscures | Reflections of flesh once was | Hundred-year mirror | Age has | photographs belied | They silently exist | by prusse Moon lit: | forgotten | were Reminiscences to be found; | Sorrows in Solitude solace consoled by one not seen; | embraces and caresses adumbrated | by Presence; | Existence frolicked imp-like: | Revelments paled | Resplendences paled | The currents set by Chronos slowed in the dark of Chaos; | And Beauty smiling |...
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