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Take me to you, imprison me, for I,
Except you enthrall me, never shall be free,
Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.

Obsessed with God as Lover, thinking about how the priest at my middle school said he couldn’t have a wife because he was married to God, covenant etc etc

O cautery so tender!
O pampered wound!


Weeeeepy in the library, beautiful collection

this is so so so extraordinary and it rewards such slow reading

Spiritual psychosis refers to a state where an individual’s spiritual experiences become overwhelming and lead to a breakdown in their ability to distinguish between reality and their spiritual perceptions. This condition can manifest in a way that seems similar to a psychotic episode, where the person may experience delusions, hallucinations, and intense emotional disturbances.

For all this, nature is never spent; there lives the dearest freshness deep down things.

There he comes out / there from the enchanted house, / I come out from there.

Here from Martyr! because Kaveh Akbar reached into my soul and turns out that’s his job i guess

Cried reading the first poem ever because holy shit it’s the first poem ever

Poetry as prayer as meditation as in thinning the partition between a person and a divine

This collection “exists in opposition to the colonial impulse.” :)

this is an extraordinary, luminous, wide-reaching and wide-embracing collection, and I’m grateful every day for Kaveh Akbar, and also that I have this to hold onto after We Do Not Part