Carrion Verse
Candelaria Ponce’s final work of poetry, a collection of beautiful pastoral verses and gruesome elegies.
I’m Reading…
The poems are loosely connected through the life of a single great condor, who hatches from an egg alone in the Andes, its nest-brothers smashed by careless trappers. The condor comes to take to the skies in some of Ponce’s most heartwrenchingly beautiful poetry.
I’ve Read…
The verses dwelling on the condor’s feasting on dead hikers and shepherds are grisly and disturbing. Ponce shifts from portraying the condor as a noble creature of splendor and majesty to dwelling on its reliance on death to subsist as ‘a ragged king of the sky.’ **Effect: **Memory: Regret **Mastery: **Lesson: Furs & Feathers
Aspects
- Mystery: Winter 6
- Subject: Furs & Feathers
- Codex
- Readable
- Thing
- L’ostello del Dottore