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Laius and Jocasta, Medea, etc.

by | Sep 15, 2020 | AB, AN, MU, RE

Laius and Jocasta, Medea, etc. Simone de Beauvoir speaks of passion “born from love to murder love.”  Does she mean women (or their men) who want Abortions after passion (or just sex Or lust)?   Does she mean women born to haunt The cosmos with those listless babies,...

Dead Sea Salt, not Caves

by | Sep 15, 2020 | BI, CH, DE, GO, IS, JU, KO, LE, OL, QU, RE

       Dead Sea Salt, not Caves “Many soul-destroying things/In folded tablets” ~ T. S. Brandreth, The Iliad of Homer, 1816 I know those soul-destroying things, those things In ancient texts on parchment, vellum, or Papyrus, rolled or folded.  Suffering...

Cleaving

by | Aug 29, 2020 | AT, RE, UN

                Cleaving Like iron filings you were trapped against My heart. It drew you to its outer flesh And tried to suck you inward.  You were fenced: Your dark male filings harshly made a mesh, A metal net to hold off my desire. It turns out softened, hardened...

Conversion at the Cliff Edge of the Great Rift Valley

by | Aug 2, 2020 | AN, GA, Ho, IN, KE, PR, RE

Some readers may find this piece offensive.  If you think you might be offended, please do not read it. Conversion at the Cliff Edge of the Great Rift Valley Modern poetry  modern verse  contemporary poetry  contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Beyond...

Orpheus and Male Reincarnation

by | Jul 26, 2020 | OR, RE, TR, WO

Orpheus and Male Reincarnation When Orpheus decided that he craved Escape from women utterly and so Desired migration of his spirit saved From birth to any of them and to go Instead into the beauty of a cob, The poet did not try to fly away To some escape from further...