December 2009
17 posts
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Love Song
“Love Song” A. R. Ammons Like the hills under dusk you fall away from the light: you deepen: the green light darkens and you are nearly lost: only so much light as stars keep manifests your face: the total night in myself raves for the light along your lips.
It's Raining In Love
“It’s Raining In Love” Richard Brautigan I don’t know what it is, but I distrust myself when I start to like a girl a lot. It makes me nervous. I don’t say the right things or perhaps I start to examine, evaluate, compute what I am saying. If I say, “Do you think it’s going to rain?” and she says, “I don’t know,” I...
“Why one writes is a question I can easily answer, having so often asked it...”
– Anaïs Nin, “A New Woman”
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The Planned Child
I hated the fact that they had planned me, she had taken a cardboard out of his shirt from the laundry as if sliding the backbone up out of his body, and made a chart of the month and put her temperature on it, rising and falling, to know the day to make me - I would have liked to have been conceived in heat, in haste, by mistake, in love, in sex, not on cardboard, the little x on the rising line...