mercy, andrea dworkin
New poem of mine in Issue XI of FlyPaper Mag 💕🐎
“In the crooks of your body, I find my religion.”
- Sappho
“Do not look for healing at the feet of those who broke you.”— Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey (via rupikaurpoems)
Fragments of Sappho, circa 630 - 580 BC. Translated by Anne Carson.
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Poem by Douglas Mulloch.
Seen in Mister Rogers’ book ‘You Are Special-Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbour’.
good omens + richard siken quotes
“and you’re trying to choke down the feeling, and you’re trembling, but he reaches over and touches you like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you’ve discovered something you don’t have a name for”
short poem inspired by Rae Spoon & Ivan E. Coyote’s book “Gender Failure” that i started reading last night! i decided i wanted to put it on my letterboard but it took soooo long idk if it was actually worth it.. at least i got the picture though lmao
“MY ARROGANCE KNOWS NO BOUNDS AND I WILL MAKE NO PEACE TODAY, AND YOU SHOULD BE SO LUCKY TO FIND A WOMAN LIKE ME” | Jenny Holzer, “Projections”
Important note : this is a projection by artist Jenny Holzer, but the text comes from a poem by Arab American writer Mohja Kahf, ’Ishtar Awakens in Chicago’. Holzer used Kahf’s work with her full agreement, I believe they’ve collaborated several times, but please check out the full context of the poem below.
My arrogance knows no bounds
And I will make no peace today
And you shall be so lucky
To find a woman like me
Today neither will the East claim me
nor the West admit me
Today my belly is a well
wherein serpents are coiled
ready to poison the world,
and you should be so lucky.
All I have is my arrogance
I will teach it to lean back
and smoke a cigarette in your faces,
and you should be so lucky
No I will make no peace
even though my hands are empty
I will talk as big as I please
I will be all or nothing
And I will jump before the heavy trucks
And I will saw off my leg at the thigh
before I bend one womanly knee
I am poison
And you will drink me
And you should be so lucky.
