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“I don't want to be a person. I want to be unbearable.”
― Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera
― Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera
“and yes, it is spring, if you can’t tell
from the words my mind makes
of the world, and everything
makes me mildly or more
hungry”
― Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
from the words my mind makes
of the world, and everything
makes me mildly or more
hungry”
― Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
“It is very cold
walking into the long scraped April wind.
At this time of the year there is no sunset
just some movements inside the light and then as sinking away.”
― Glass, Irony and God
walking into the long scraped April wind.
At this time of the year there is no sunset
just some movements inside the light and then as sinking away.”
― Glass, Irony and God
“I am light now, or on the side of light—: light-head, light-trophied. Light-wracked and light-gone. The sweet maize in fluorescence—: an eruption of light, or its feast, from the stalk of my lover’s throat. And I, light-eater, light-loving.”
― Postcolonial Love Poem
― Postcolonial Love Poem
“The rain will eventually come, or not. Until then, we touch our bodies like wounds— the war never ended and somehow begins again.”
― Postcolonial Love Poem
― Postcolonial Love Poem
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