NPQiYBM

She got the which of the what-she-did
Hid the bell with a blot, she did
But she fell in love with a hominid
Where is the which of the what-she-did?

My favorite SF writer ever!

ETA: "The Ballad of Lost C'Mell," Cordwainer Smith.

NPQiYBM/Arthuriana

julianyap was the one who had to bring Arthur into it...

A poem from my favorite Arthurian poet:

Hued from the livid everlasting stone
the queen's hewn eyelids bruised my bone;
my eyes splintered, as our father Adam's when the first
exorbitant flying nature round creation's flank burst.

Her hair was whirlwind about her face;
her face outstripped her hair; it rose from a place
where pre-Adamic sculpture on an ocean rock lay,
and the sculpture torn from its rock was swept away.

Her hand discharged catastrophe; I was thrown
before it; I saw the source of all stone,
the rigid tornado, the schism and first strife
of primeval rock with itself, Morgause Lot's wife.

( ETA: The rest of Lamorak and Queen Morgause of Orkney, Charles Williams )