"Maybe a rabbit is next. If I can find gentler attendance in me."
I'd not bend you towards gentleness, o wolf,
were it your teeth I'd find against my neck.
How wide and satisfied my jaws, o rabbit,
to find your tenderness so sweet therein.
"Maybe a rabbit is next. If I can find gentler attendance in me."
I'd not bend you towards gentleness, o wolf,
were it your teeth I'd find against my neck.
How wide and satisfied my jaws, o rabbit,
to find your tenderness so sweet therein.
For my friend on the occasion of her wedding. What I know of mirrors is their imperfection, their imbalance of mathematics: one reflects one, & we imagine this is wholeness & we believe we know oursel
For my friend on the occasion of his wedding. No eye for art, you said, and turned toward Hunger, livid color leaving you cold, neither keen, nor compelling, not enough, not when you already know how
It is not Death that watches us with suspicion, yet you invoke Her name anyway, make of Her a boundary, make of me an earthen intimacy. There is no revelry in roots no matter how deep they run, only f