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We’re gonna pretend the movie doesn’t exist. I haven’t watched it but i know its a gutted and defiled corpse of this book so for my sanity it doesn’t exist.

I am fucking sad

Did not expect to get so invested, this is soo good

Listening to his meditations on kindness and anger and grief after reading Angela Davis speak about restorative justice hits different

Sometimes she feels like the only person telling the truth about our reality bruh

Shes an inspiration fr😇

This is a really fun read :)

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.

Cool history, wish the author wasnt speculating so much ugh

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.” :)

Brain is expanding

Much among mortals I am..
Greek word for “much” is untranslatable bc it came to English as the prefix ‘poly-‘. “She is not claiming omnipotence but rather universal access.”
She (and Artemis) understand flesh and change. Hippolytus claims to in hubris, and Aphrodite claims 3 victims as consequence. To abandon Aphrodite is suicide and murder.
Aphrodite’s breath is felt / on everything there is.

I know what it is to feel that urge to build a small heaven, or many small heavens, ones that you cannot take with you, but cannot be taken from you.
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May we all be buried on our own terms.