June 2012
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Love is an interruption or an aberration, a force in opposition to the ultimate...
– Marguerite Duras
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all other girls grow dull as painted flowers
or flutter harmlessly like...
– Intimacy by Edgell Rickword
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May 2012
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a woman feeling the fullness of her powers
at the precise moment when she must...
– I Dream I’m the Death of Orpheus by Adrienne Rich
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It is an equilibrium
that breasts the cresting seasons but still stays calm...
– Weathering by Alastair Reid
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I am alone with the beating of my heart.
Stay with me tonight,
Old songs.
– A Poet Thinks by Lui Chi
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When I am with you,
My heart is a frozen pond
Gleaming with agitated torches.
– Opal by Amy Lowell
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Not for the proud man apart
From the raging moon I write
On these spindrift...
– In My Craft or Sullen Art by Dylan Thomas
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The sun bursts through in unlooked-for directions,
Strong thoughts fill you and...
– To One Shortly To Die by Walt Whitman
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your outlines, walk across your mouth
they put down footprints in your eyes....
– This temporary face by Imtiax Dharker
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