Monthly Archives: January 2020

Love notes between two fires

You don’t know what the wind feels like Deep in your bones With sighing tones of what came before it. We don’t know what the wind feels like Deep in our bones, And we don’t want to.   We’re on … Continue reading

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Today I took off my shame

Today I took off my shame I didn’t hurl it at the ground I just noticed I was small enough to slip through it Unmolested. Bodiless, it fell like a pile of empty armour On a silent battlefield. Every strap … Continue reading

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Let me freeze again to death: the texture of depression in an obscure 17th century aria restructured by a gentle alien

The next time someone asks me to describe depression, I think that I will simply send them the following lines from this song. Let me, let me, Let me freeze again Let me, let me Freeze again to death Let … Continue reading

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This hole is perfect

This hole is perfect because you are in It Don’t even try to get out This is the perfect shape of you Crushed to atomic Compounded to compost To a mad misshapen thing Beyond redemption or repair. The seed song … Continue reading

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We met only in the desert

We met only in the desert My impossible love and I A holy cup of mutual thirst where darkness lights the sky.                                      … Continue reading

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Abyss to home in three viewings

Sometimes when we see things from a distance, we see things more clearly. Like the view of a mountain from another mountain across a whole valley between. But sometimes, when we view things from afar, we miss something vital. Sometimes … Continue reading

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