Dacia Maraini, tr. by Tim Vode, from βDreams of Clytemnestraβ wr. c. 1994
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𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 - 𝐭𝐚𝐲𝐥𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐰𝐢𝐟𝐭
“For you, I’d steal the stars.”— A Six Word Poem ( on how you deserve galaxies)
Women have minds and they have souls as well as just hearts. Theyβve got ambition and theyβve got talent as well as just beauty. I am so sick of people saying that love is just all a woman is fit for. Iβm so sick of it! But β I am so lonely.
The blue of the sky falls over me like silk, the flowers begin to burn, and I want to live my life all over again, to begin again, to be utterly wild.
Mary Oliver, excerpt of “a meeting”, in the truro bear and other adventures
hot summer streets
and the pavements are burning
I sit around
trying to smile but
the air is so heavy and dry
“So here it is. My friends call me he, or they. The government and most of my family call me she. The media calls me she, because I don’t trust them enough to request that they do anything else. My lovers call me sweetheart. Or baby. Somewhere in all of that I find myself. These are, after all, only words.”
— Ivan E. Coyote, Gender Failure
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Patroclus, he says, Patroclus, Patroclus. Over and over until it is sound only. Somewhere Odysseus is kneeling, urging food and drink. A fierce red rage comes, and he almost kills him there. But he would have to let go of me. He cannot. He holds me so tightly I can feel the faint beat of his chest, like the wings of a moth. An echo, the last bit of spirit still tethered to my body. A torment.
I stand in the window and watch the moon. She is thin and lustreless, But I love her. I know the moon, and this is an alien city.
Amy Lowell, from a London thoroughfare. 2 A.M.; sword blades and poppy seed: poems, 1914