unofficial tuesday musings

Basically, I don't know how to intentionally write a "shifty voice" narrative, but I feel like saying something anyway, so here I am.

I am in love with this stanza from Wallace Stevens' "Six Significant Landscapes".  I want to write a female character like this (but not in my first fiction project, because I have a different idea):

The night is of the color

Of a woman's arm:

Night, the female,

Obscure,

Fragrant and supple,

Conceals herself.

A pool shines,

Like a bracelet

Shaken in a dance.

Such poetry should be written about me.  Obviously.

As for my next male character (but not for my first fiction project once again, because I have a really specific idea for that), I've always been inspired by these lines from Iron & Wine's "Each Coming Night":

Will you say to them when I'm gone away:

"I loved your son for his sturdy arms.

We both learned to cradle then live without."

Awww.