<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post6250748038410379006..comments</id><updated>2011-07-13T16:13:18.645-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Silliman&#39;s Blog: </title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6250748038410379006/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/photo-by-jonathan-williams-somebody-who.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>21</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8312788972574708471</id><published>2008-02-17T05:42:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-17T05:42:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Life&#39;s tough isn&#39;t it.</title><summary type='text'>Life&#39;s tough isn&#39;t it.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6250748038410379006/comments/default/8312788972574708471'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6250748038410379006/comments/default/8312788972574708471'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/photo-by-jonathan-williams-somebody-who.html?showComment=1203244920000#c8312788972574708471' title=''/><author><name>Meg</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11023871171456340729</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_uYCDfb2QGz8/R7ByLmVL9GI/AAAAAAAAAFk/wESPZbQYQRo/S220/gotmilk.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/photo-by-jonathan-williams-somebody-who.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6250748038410379006' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6250748038410379006' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2000124934"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 17, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-825436794944262291</id><published>2008-02-16T10:36:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-16T10:36:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Michael,I don&#39;t mind disagreements. Ad hominen and...</title><summary type='text'>Michael,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I don&#39;t mind disagreements. Ad hominen and ad feminen attacks don&#39;t have to be part of them. Please note &lt;A HREF=&quot;http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/quick-note-to-acknowledge-that-in-two.html&quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt; my blog&lt;/A&gt; on what goes here.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6250748038410379006/comments/default/825436794944262291'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6250748038410379006/comments/default/825436794944262291'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/photo-by-jonathan-williams-somebody-who.html?showComment=1203176160000#c825436794944262291' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/silliman/silliman2a.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/photo-by-jonathan-williams-somebody-who.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6250748038410379006' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6250748038410379006' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 16, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-738635639090908479</id><published>2008-02-16T00:00:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-16T00:00:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I liked the poem much better without the explanati...</title><summary type='text'>I liked the poem much better without the explanation.  Please don&#39;t give us round 2 tomorrow.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6250748038410379006/comments/default/738635639090908479'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6250748038410379006/comments/default/738635639090908479'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/photo-by-jonathan-williams-somebody-who.html?showComment=1203138000000#c738635639090908479' title=''/><author><name>DeadMule</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01209584859435270113</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/photo-by-jonathan-williams-somebody-who.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6250748038410379006' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6250748038410379006' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1345957712"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 16, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7905243961312717208</id><published>2008-02-15T23:49:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-15T23:49:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron,Am I reading right--that you censored Faville?...</title><summary type='text'>Ron,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Am I reading right--that you censored Faville? &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I found Faville&#39;s comment stating as much at Reginald Shepherd&#39;s Poetry Foundation blog post: &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;http://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/01/awp_communazis_and_me_1.html&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;If so, it&#39;s disappointing, though not surprising. In fact, your moderation is why I stopped commenting here a few years back.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6250748038410379006/comments/default/7905243961312717208'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6250748038410379006/comments/default/7905243961312717208'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/photo-by-jonathan-williams-somebody-who.html?showComment=1203137340000#c7905243961312717208' title=''/><author><name>Michael Hoerman</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07253904232487904166</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/photo-by-jonathan-williams-somebody-who.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6250748038410379006' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6250748038410379006' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1328156720"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 15, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2257385141788969980</id><published>2008-02-15T16:52:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-15T16:52:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>this is the funniest thing I&#39;ve read all week. You...</title><summary type='text'>this is the funniest thing I&#39;ve read all week. You guys sound like a jim behrle cartoon! &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;shocked, shocked yellow yellow yellow&lt;BR/&gt;semen pee semen pee semen semen semen semen</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6250748038410379006/comments/default/2257385141788969980'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6250748038410379006/comments/default/2257385141788969980'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/photo-by-jonathan-williams-somebody-who.html?showComment=1203112320000#c2257385141788969980' title=''/><author><name>Annandale Dream Gazette</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08155953951163636760</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/photo-by-jonathan-williams-somebody-who.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6250748038410379006' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6250748038410379006' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1293329833"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 15, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3420539397741565488</id><published>2008-02-15T16:10:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-15T16:10:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Wow, that&#39;s a great find, Sam.  WCW himself on yel...</title><summary type='text'>Wow, that&#39;s a great find, Sam.  WCW himself on yellow! Thanks for sharing.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6250748038410379006/comments/default/3420539397741565488'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6250748038410379006/comments/default/3420539397741565488'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/photo-by-jonathan-williams-somebody-who.html?showComment=1203109800000#c3420539397741565488' title=''/><author><name>Steven Fama</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13733977161680651117</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/photo-by-jonathan-williams-somebody-who.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6250748038410379006' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6250748038410379006' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 15, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2188683782379537536</id><published>2008-02-15T15:59:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-15T15:59:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The STAIN of loveIs upon the world.SMEARS with saf...</title><summary type='text'>The STAIN of love&lt;BR/&gt;Is upon the world.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;SMEARS with saffron&lt;BR/&gt;The HORNED branches that lean&lt;BR/&gt;HEAVILY&lt;BR/&gt;Against a smooth purple sky.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;There is no light—&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;SPOILING the colours&lt;BR/&gt;Of the whole world.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;STARLINGS carry it&lt;BR/&gt;On their BLACK wings.&lt;BR/&gt;See, at last&lt;BR/&gt;My arms and my hands&lt;BR/&gt;Are lying IDLE.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;He&#39;s in the agony of guilt, after </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6250748038410379006/comments/default/2188683782379537536'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6250748038410379006/comments/default/2188683782379537536'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/photo-by-jonathan-williams-somebody-who.html?showComment=1203109140000#c2188683782379537536' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/photo-by-jonathan-williams-somebody-who.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6250748038410379006' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6250748038410379006' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 15, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6077692213124447062</id><published>2008-02-15T14:45:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-15T14:45:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow!It is not a color.I...</title><summary type='text'>Yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow!&lt;BR/&gt;It is not a color.&lt;BR/&gt;It is summer!&lt;BR/&gt;It is the wind on a willow,&lt;BR/&gt;the lap of waves, the shadow&lt;BR/&gt;under a bush, a bird, a bluebird,&lt;BR/&gt;three herons, a dead hawk&lt;BR/&gt;rotting on a pole - &lt;BR/&gt;Clear yellow!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;WCW, &quot;Primrose&quot;, from &lt;I&gt;Sour Grapes&lt;/I&gt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6250748038410379006/comments/default/6077692213124447062'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6250748038410379006/comments/default/6077692213124447062'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/photo-by-jonathan-williams-somebody-who.html?showComment=1203104700000#c6077692213124447062' title=''/><author><name>Sam</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14785473936389990163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/160/427080743_6904af6de5_t.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/photo-by-jonathan-williams-somebody-who.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6250748038410379006' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6250748038410379006' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1204677355"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 15, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1357245094138312477</id><published>2008-02-15T13:49:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-15T13:49:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>love does smell a bit look a bitremind me a bitof ...</title><summary type='text'>love does smell a bit look a bit&lt;BR/&gt;remind me a bit&lt;BR/&gt;of an autumn sunset&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;maybe he had the onanism blues</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6250748038410379006/comments/default/1357245094138312477'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6250748038410379006/comments/default/1357245094138312477'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/photo-by-jonathan-williams-somebody-who.html?showComment=1203101340000#c1357245094138312477' title=''/><author><name>john hanson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10043530995274885830</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/photo-by-jonathan-williams-somebody-who.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6250748038410379006' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6250748038410379006' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1850634495"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 15, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5709157218769486725</id><published>2008-02-15T13:27:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-15T13:27:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Barnes&#39;s &quot;perfectly legit question&quot; is a quote fro...</title><summary type='text'>Barnes&#39;s &quot;perfectly legit question&quot; is a quote from &lt;I&gt;Paterson&lt;/I&gt;, wherein WCW is evidently relaying the opinion of some townsperson he&#39;s shown a poem. I don&#39;t have my books with me; I think it&#39;s in Book 3.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6250748038410379006/comments/default/5709157218769486725'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6250748038410379006/comments/default/5709157218769486725'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/photo-by-jonathan-williams-somebody-who.html?showComment=1203100020000#c5709157218769486725' title=''/><author><name>Stephen Baraban</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09637400683517160112</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/photo-by-jonathan-williams-somebody-who.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6250748038410379006' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6250748038410379006' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-290229728"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 15, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1180294445676010860</id><published>2008-02-15T13:16:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-15T13:16:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>WCW was quite enamored with Mina Loy&#39;s love poems,...</title><summary type='text'>WCW was quite enamored with Mina Loy&#39;s love poems, especially the trickle of saliva the the cupid the pig rose of the nose in the soot and glint of the world.  She GOT into his hot blood!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;AND WHY NOT DAMMIT!?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Mina Loy was just as magnificent as WCW!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;CAConrad&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;A HREF=&quot;http://phillysound.blogspot.com/2008_02_01_archive.html&quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Barbieo Barros Gizzi&#39;s BLUE </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6250748038410379006/comments/default/1180294445676010860'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6250748038410379006/comments/default/1180294445676010860'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/photo-by-jonathan-williams-somebody-who.html?showComment=1203099360000#c1180294445676010860' title=''/><author><name>poet CAConrad</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13148611902772898013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.softskull.com/coverimages/deviant_100.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/photo-by-jonathan-williams-somebody-who.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6250748038410379006' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6250748038410379006' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-691277454"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 15, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6920609667061106645</id><published>2008-02-15T12:35:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-15T12:35:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The &quot;perfectly legit question&quot; are lines that Barn...</title><summary type='text'>The &quot;perfectly legit question&quot; are lines that Barnes appears to have quoted from Paterson 3:II:114</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6250748038410379006/comments/default/6920609667061106645'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6250748038410379006/comments/default/6920609667061106645'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/photo-by-jonathan-williams-somebody-who.html?showComment=1203096900000#c6920609667061106645' title=''/><author><name>Kirk Johnson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12714098498354846094</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/photo-by-jonathan-williams-somebody-who.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6250748038410379006' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6250748038410379006' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-458221395"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 15, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7750171030647049391</id><published>2008-02-15T12:28:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-15T12:28:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>He doesn&#39;t say the stain is on the sheets, or on h...</title><summary type='text'>He doesn&#39;t say the stain is on the sheets, or on his or his lover&#39;s body. It&#39;s &quot;upon the world.&quot; It isn&#39;t pollen, because it &quot;eats into the leaves&quot;; in the next stanza, it is &quot;honey-thick,&quot; and honey is distilled from nectar—it is a residue of a gone Spring, an end-of-summer thing. The stain of love is the stain of autumn, which &quot;eats into the leaves.&quot; His lover is gone, he&#39;s feeling autumnal—he </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6250748038410379006/comments/default/7750171030647049391'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6250748038410379006/comments/default/7750171030647049391'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/photo-by-jonathan-williams-somebody-who.html?showComment=1203096480000#c7750171030647049391' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/photo-by-jonathan-williams-somebody-who.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6250748038410379006' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6250748038410379006' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1148938945"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 15, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2663138646033636624</id><published>2008-02-15T12:21:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-15T12:21:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>okay, on the count of 3 how about everyone stop ta...</title><summary type='text'>okay, on the count of 3 how about everyone stop talking about semen?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6250748038410379006/comments/default/2663138646033636624'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6250748038410379006/comments/default/2663138646033636624'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/photo-by-jonathan-williams-somebody-who.html?showComment=1203096060000#c2663138646033636624' title=''/><author><name>John Sakkis</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08621102858745971700</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2801/1876/1600/dusiephoto.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/photo-by-jonathan-williams-somebody-who.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6250748038410379006' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6250748038410379006' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1144833194"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 15, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8244945723911609136</id><published>2008-02-15T12:04:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-15T12:04:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>both yellowand purple are the colorsof royaltyyell...</title><summary type='text'>both yellow&lt;BR/&gt;and purple are the colors&lt;BR/&gt;of royalty&lt;BR/&gt;yellow in the east&lt;BR/&gt;and purple in the west&lt;BR/&gt;the image of honey&lt;BR/&gt;returns us to the&lt;BR/&gt;honey-combed and &#39;insecting&#39;&lt;BR/&gt;gaze of words, the way we&lt;BR/&gt;&#39;break out&#39; into the&lt;BR/&gt;&#39;hives&#39; of words&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The word saffron originated from the 12th-century Old French term safran, which derives from the Latin word safranum. Safranum is</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6250748038410379006/comments/default/8244945723911609136'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6250748038410379006/comments/default/8244945723911609136'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/photo-by-jonathan-williams-somebody-who.html?showComment=1203095040000#c8244945723911609136' title=''/><author><name>phaneronoemikon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08430230355065457354</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hLJ2N7ZOgD8/R6EJKLnXPdI/AAAAAAAAAS4/2kJ0hAZuqOs/S220/Ozilanniman.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/photo-by-jonathan-williams-somebody-who.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6250748038410379006' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6250748038410379006' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 15, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3725013944763473792</id><published>2008-02-15T10:54:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-15T10:54:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>It&#39;s about sin. He&#39;s broken a commandment.</title><summary type='text'>It&#39;s about sin. He&#39;s broken a commandment.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6250748038410379006/comments/default/3725013944763473792'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6250748038410379006/comments/default/3725013944763473792'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/photo-by-jonathan-williams-somebody-who.html?showComment=1203090840000#c3725013944763473792' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/photo-by-jonathan-williams-somebody-who.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6250748038410379006' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6250748038410379006' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 15, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8020893465010294744</id><published>2008-02-15T10:25:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-15T10:25:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>First, the link in yesterday&#39;s post is to the firs...</title><summary type='text'>First, the link in yesterday&#39;s post is to the first version of the poem.  The second version is more compressed.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And Ron&#39;s reading of the poem&#39;s narrative isn&#39;t persuasive to me. Equating the yellow stain of love with the semen / the wet spot  seems a stretch. Silly me, when Ron&#39;s footnote asserted that yellow is &quot;hardly the color of semen,&quot; I immediately thought, &quot;yes it is, if the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6250748038410379006/comments/default/8020893465010294744'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6250748038410379006/comments/default/8020893465010294744'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/photo-by-jonathan-williams-somebody-who.html?showComment=1203089100000#c8020893465010294744' title=''/><author><name>Steven Fama</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13733977161680651117</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/photo-by-jonathan-williams-somebody-who.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6250748038410379006' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6250748038410379006' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 15, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2180380266450684484</id><published>2008-02-15T10:04:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-15T10:04:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Oh no, I think that reading is (coff) spot on.Brav...</title><summary type='text'>Oh no, I think that reading is (coff) spot on.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Bravo, incidentally, for pointing toward WCW&#39;s treatment of feeling and the irrational.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6250748038410379006/comments/default/2180380266450684484'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6250748038410379006/comments/default/2180380266450684484'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/photo-by-jonathan-williams-somebody-who.html?showComment=1203087840000#c2180380266450684484' title=''/><author><name>Jordan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10451174274596699645</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://static.flickr.com/68/168671726_f87b53b572_m.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/photo-by-jonathan-williams-somebody-who.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6250748038410379006' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6250748038410379006' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1484709122"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 15, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7755056165728907259</id><published>2008-02-15T10:03:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-15T10:03:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>it&#39;s about sunlight</title><summary type='text'>it&#39;s about sunlight</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6250748038410379006/comments/default/7755056165728907259'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6250748038410379006/comments/default/7755056165728907259'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/photo-by-jonathan-williams-somebody-who.html?showComment=1203087780000#c7755056165728907259' title=''/><author><name>john hanson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10043530995274885830</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/photo-by-jonathan-williams-somebody-who.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6250748038410379006' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6250748038410379006' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1850634495"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 15, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8353257976035821420</id><published>2008-02-15T09:16:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-15T09:16:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Yellow of course isn&#39;t the color of *fresh* semen,...</title><summary type='text'>Yellow of course isn&#39;t the color of *fresh* semen, but yesterday&#39;s or last night&#39;s semen tends to dry into yellow stains on white sheets.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I don&#39;t read the &quot;stain,&quot; however, nearly as literally as you: to my eye &amp; ear, it&#39;s a kind of &quot;afterglow,&quot; a clingy, mucous, honey-like nimbus that surrounds all of the morning phenomena the poet observes.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6250748038410379006/comments/default/8353257976035821420'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6250748038410379006/comments/default/8353257976035821420'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/photo-by-jonathan-williams-somebody-who.html?showComment=1203084960000#c8353257976035821420' title=''/><author><name>Mark Scroggins</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01431113440875342809</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/181/478644967_71452c4186_b.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/photo-by-jonathan-williams-somebody-who.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6250748038410379006' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6250748038410379006' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1891033044"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 15, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3427625268219305614</id><published>2008-02-15T09:04:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-15T09:04:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I that&#39;s a bit too literal a reading of the poem. ...</title><summary type='text'>I that&#39;s a bit too literal a reading of the poem.  Sure, there are plenty of semen/vaginal fluid references, but to locate the actual occasion of the poem in a stain on the sheets works against WCW&#39;s conscious attempt to diffuse personal desire into something bigger, wider, coterminous with nature itself.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;The stain of love&quot; is more than a come stain.  It&#39;s at once the spring time stain </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6250748038410379006/comments/default/3427625268219305614'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6250748038410379006/comments/default/3427625268219305614'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/photo-by-jonathan-williams-somebody-who.html?showComment=1203084240000#c3427625268219305614' title=''/><author><name>Luther Blissett</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05431159615586957896</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/photo-by-jonathan-williams-somebody-who.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6250748038410379006' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6250748038410379006' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-901283303"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 15, 2008"/></entry></feed>