November 2011
13 posts
“Emotions, in my experience, aren’t covered by single words. I don’t believe in...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides
(aeloquence via thechaotic)
“‘Wherever we look in early modern England, we find anxiety, latent or explicit,...”
– (Keith Thomas, Man and Beast, p38)
“A word correct, enclosed, wrapped around its meaning… Without a crack,...”
– Irigaray, When Our Lips Speak Together
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Untitled, 2011
Planted helpless at your side
Sucked and released by the earth
You have left behind for me to tend.
A bindii integument threatens,
I pull it out—reckless with its spines.
Spiders erupt, unsettled,
Scuttling, angry earth.
Your golden hair has turned green.
I trim it, reminiscent.
Has time returned it
For your sacrifice?
I bend close to kiss your forehead.
A spider, rigid, ready
...