The Yage Letters

"...most of us were about the idlest young dogs that squandered away their time on the pavements of Paris or London. We would not work. I declare in all candour that...the average number of hours per week which I devoted to literary production did not exceed four."
-George Augustus Sala, writing of the bohemian culture in 1880s Grub Street.

In Bohemia I dug a hole
Looked inside to find
Beatniks, Dandies, Water-drinkers
Mums, Grandpas, Hobos
Alchemists, Smokers
Thieves and Cobblers
and even -on rainy Sundays
Artists of the Tudor Court

All of us spinning around her in a field of burning grass.
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter

Elizabeth



Arthur