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haljonesy's review
4.0
Some of my favorite lines:
May the need to ask me / about my darkness / never command you β Canopus
That you have nothing to say. That your deep sadness is free / to be deeply sad near me / some of what love is for β The holy embraces the holy
That your sadness / unbuttons my heart, kneads its clowns. That a heart remains a heart in its beyonds. β The holy embraces the holy
And as ours is / hers is never a straight line / on the lucid path / in a membranous universe β Pisces
What is the threshold / for suffering to create us equal β Sandra bland, Texas
(From bodies to souls, and souls to corpses). You said, the dead don't want to be brought back (I said I don't want to live forever alone) β descending, rising
You're not a language I am / ashamed to sing. You're a language I'm not/ ashamed to sing. β Domicile, house, cusp
Of impermanence, on whose / edges the last escape is infinite / if it is death this destiny / offers me, and in its tail end/ a conduit to another realm/ in which time spins differently / than we've known it to pass β black hole
Before I slam / into the ground from a height I had / no business reaching / through nightmare, I can't / stay calm, can't trust that / whatever ending may come/ will not be my end β Libra
You won't dry up, you're more / than starlight in ashes / or symbionts riding swells. / you're mostly / of this earth, and more cloud / than ground. β Sirius
Was I ever a moth / or you this kind of light? / one of us was dying, and one / had no wings for the journey back.
So that when I'm a stranger in the world / I can find you β Venus cycle
May the need to ask me / about my darkness / never command you β Canopus
That you have nothing to say. That your deep sadness is free / to be deeply sad near me / some of what love is for β The holy embraces the holy
That your sadness / unbuttons my heart, kneads its clowns. That a heart remains a heart in its beyonds. β The holy embraces the holy
And as ours is / hers is never a straight line / on the lucid path / in a membranous universe β Pisces
What is the threshold / for suffering to create us equal β Sandra bland, Texas
(From bodies to souls, and souls to corpses). You said, the dead don't want to be brought back (I said I don't want to live forever alone) β descending, rising
You're not a language I am / ashamed to sing. You're a language I'm not/ ashamed to sing. β Domicile, house, cusp
Of impermanence, on whose / edges the last escape is infinite / if it is death this destiny / offers me, and in its tail end/ a conduit to another realm/ in which time spins differently / than we've known it to pass β black hole
Before I slam / into the ground from a height I had / no business reaching / through nightmare, I can't / stay calm, can't trust that / whatever ending may come/ will not be my end β Libra
You won't dry up, you're more / than starlight in ashes / or symbionts riding swells. / you're mostly / of this earth, and more cloud / than ground. β Sirius
Was I ever a moth / or you this kind of light? / one of us was dying, and one / had no wings for the journey back.
So that when I'm a stranger in the world / I can find you β Venus cycle
literarilytrisha's review
2.0
Now, I am all for the abstract and giving illusions to meaning but so often I lost the emotional teether while I read. I would have to pause and let my eyes drift back up to try and figure out what was being conveyed. There were a few lovely lines but mostly a structure I wasn't used to.
2 cosmic stars.
2 cosmic stars.
lyriclorelei's review
challenging
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Between a sunflower's florets and the galaxy,
cellular and solar, I am outgrown.
cellular and solar, I am outgrown.
edebell's review
5.0
I'm grateful to Bogi TakΓ‘cs for recommending this on eir Twitter (@bogiperson), as I would not have seen it otherwise. This collection is just what I needed today, after some difficulties. It's deep and emotional and expertly crafted with a doctor's eye and toolkit. I really enjoyed it, and will look for more from this writer and poet. Some content notes for emotional pain, connections, and disconnections.