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If you see this on your dashboard, reblog this, NO MATTER WHAT and all your dreams and wishes will come true.

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How It Goes

I’ll hurt you – you will

also hurt me. In between . . .

such a moist sweetness!

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My new book of essays is available for pre-order; check out what people have to say about it at madhat-press.com.

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The cover of my new book of poems, available next month.

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how much do you relate to the Taylor Swift lyric: ''It's me, hi, I'm the problem, it's me''?

0% honestly. I don't think I've ever actually been a problem for myself or anyone else

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I rarely do this, but if you haven’t checked out EvaHouseWife yet — both here and on Only Fans — well, your life just isn’t complete. What are you waiting for?

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when was it that I read John Dee

when Edward Kelly and Giordano

seemed like contemporaries     as familiar

as the Giants falling in the standings

long arc of sun rises over the redwood

last cool breezes before late afternoon

tall grasses bob and weave shyly

when was it when “it’s all one book”

made sense     when for a brief moment

someone turned over in Tartaros

and they called it climate change

Hamlet’s Mill     The Fall of Hyperion

what time is it?     a hundred o’clock

breezes barely visible now

a long argument continued

sotto voce     behind speech

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Ars Poetica 2023

I want to be an influencer

but you know with words

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The Ultimate Love Poem

fucking you

made me a better person

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An interesting take for many people on this site, I’d think.

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You had me at sapiosexual . . .

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Age?

69

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poetry is part

of natural selection too

it wants you to admire

its attractiveness

so it can

propagate itself

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I’ve decided to “out” myself on Tumblr by posting the cover of my new chapbook. I’ve only been familiar with the more salacious aspects of this site — which have afforded some pleasure and a few chats — but now I’d like to share work and ideas with any serious writers out there: it’s come to my recent attention that there are some! So let’s exchange some necessary information.

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Eleusis

The tradition has come down to us that it was Homer and allegedly before him Pamphos, the writer of hymns, who first put “Persephone,” the name of the daughter, into a poem. The poets always preferred to speak of her without a name as the Kore, the “Maiden.” The different ways of writing her name on Attic vases may disclose a fluid situation somewhere between utterance and concealment. ----Kerenyi

two goddesses become one at Eleusis in September Demeter turned towards the light

her daughter to the soul

“For a Great Goddess could do just that: in a single figure which was at once Mother and Daughter, she could . . . combine the feminine attributes of the earth

with the inconstancy of the wandering moon.”

the lesser mysteries in spring

only a preparation the secular divine

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“The Lesser Mysteries took place around February or March . . . According to Thomas Taylor, ‘the dramatic shows of the Lesser Mysteries occultly signified the miseries of the soul while in subjection to the body, so those of the Greater obscurely intimated, by mystic and splendid visions, the felicity of the soul both here and hereafter, when purified from the defilements of a material nature’” ---Wikipedia

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Persephone rises like baseball half the year lately disfigured by wildfires

drought war crimes genocide

she might as well have stayed below

where labor disputes are invisible

Persephone has no personality

always the lost one the gap in the pattern nagging feeling of loss

she must have been here

because she sure feels gone

Persephone loved her mother

but never let her know most of her life was underground

the only things that surfaced

were hard to decipher

summits of sunken mountains

Persephone not like her mother

or Gaia or any other earth goddess she rules the underworld

invisible

imaginary

she can’t be seen she only smiles nobody speaks her language

blooms are miraculous but only because of what can’t be uttered

one of the ancient ones

makes the voice falter

the only goddess described as ineffable the poets preferred to speak of her

without a name

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That Roe will soon be overturned . . .

should give solace to all the “breeders” on this site who indulge in pregnancy fantasies without the slightest consideration of the consequences. But it’s just fantasy, right? What’s the harm?