They are mounting him for the mule race will be run upon the sands. That’s the playboy on the winkered mule.

Traditionally Cucurbita maxima and Cucurbita moschata have been placed into two groups - pumpkins and grammas respectively.

—Inconsciously to the augustest end / Thou hast arisen: second not in rank / So much as time, to him who first ordained / That Florence, thou art to destroy, should be— […]

So I go on with my clowns & ponies, angels floating over peasants warming themselves by nightfires, devils, laborers, simple country girls, of donkey-bodied men & mystic bursts of rain over symbolic volcanoes.