[…] come, we’ll kiss and part forever.
Kim Addonizio, What Is This Thing Called Love: Poems; from ‘Sonnenizio on a Line From Drayton’
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from stolen moments by kim addonizio, published in what is this thing called love: poems
[Text ID: Love's merciless, the way it travels in and keeps emitting light. /End ID]
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Sometimes the body / gets so quiet / it can hear the soul, / scratching like something trapped / inside the walls / and trying frantically / to get out.
Kim Addonizio, from What Is This Thing Called Love, “Body and Soul”
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— Kim Addonizio from What Is This Thing Called Love
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What happened, happened once. So now it's best in memory-an orange he sliced: the skin unbroken, then the knife, the chilled wedge lifted to my mouth, his mouth, the thin membrane between us, the exquisite orange, tongue, orange, my nakedness and his, the way he pushed me up against the fridge- Now I get to feel his hands again, the kiss that didn't last, but sent some neural twin flashing wildly through the cortex. Love's merciless, the way it travels in and keeps emitting light. Beside the stove we ate an orange. And there were purple flowers on the table. And we still had hours.
— Kim Addonizio, What Is This Thing Called Love
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yk when you see someone share a finished handmade item that they clearly spent a lot of time and money on and it's just. The absolute tackiest thing you have seen in your life. And then you ask yourself why someone would waste all those resources on such an eyesore.
(no, of course you can't relate to that because you're a much nicer person than me)
In any case.
BEHOLD!
A wool coat!
The top fabric is handwoven and handspun, the whole thing is sewn by hand, too.
Leftovers. Barely anything, all things considered, which is very satisfying.
This thing took me well over 3 years to make, on and off. And now I'm done.
Thank you for your attention.
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Kim Addonizio, from What Is This Thing Called Love, “Blues for Roberto”
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— Kim Addonizio from What Is This Thing Called Love
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