When the nightsky pours by it’s really a crowd of beggars and they all want some of this …
Rumi, fragment (trans. C. Barks)
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I loved you once, Atthis, long ago. You seemed like a child to me, little and graceless.
Sappho, fragments (tran. S. Lombardo)
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For me neither honey nor the honey bee.
Sappho, fragments (tran. S. Lombardo)
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What girl has seduced you? Draped in burlap, she doesn’t even know to pull her rags down over her ankles.
Sappho, fragments (tran. S. Lombardo)
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20 Friday Apr 2018
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blessed one/ lovely braids … O Cypris may she find you more bitter still and Dorikha not boast of her desire come to fulfillment a second time.
Sappho, fragments (tran. S. Lombardo)
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18 Wednesday Apr 2018
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In Spain the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world. (Los muertos están más vivos que en cualquier otro país del mundo.)
Federico Garcia Lorca
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For our struggle is not one against flesh and blood, but against the tyrant, against the authority, against cosmic powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in heavenly realms, for there is evil in heaven.
Ephesians 6:12
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woman wailing for her demon lover
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, from Kubla Khan
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28 Sunday Jan 2018
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Le meilleur, c’est un sommeil bien ivre, sur la grève/ The best is a drunken sleep on the beach
Arthur Rimbaud
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23 Tuesday Jan 2018
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When i make love to you
i try
with each stroke of my tongue
to say i love you
to tease i love you
to hammer i love you
to melt i love you
& your sounds drift down
oh god!
oh jesus!
and i think—
here it is, some dude’s
getting credit for what
a woman
has done,
again.
Pat Parker,
“For Willyce”
“For Willyce”
memories of my ghost sista 