The Dancing Boy

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Don't get got, get God
It is very unserious to suggest that the divine is blood-thirsty and murderous.
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Confrontations with Our Wounds
Laverne Cox pulled the pin and launched her grenade into a community already wounded by the machinations of rejection—and she can't be expected to…
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The Magicians
David Abram says magic is the experience of being alive inside a world that is itself alive.
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Wild Horses
just as you begin to feel you figured it out / you will harden into stone / boy-cum-comet ablaze / and you will plummet
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September 2024

I Don't Want to Be a Stoic
I will no longer muzzle my passion.
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The Girl in the Wall
I wonder what her cage has been and who might have the key.
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How You Kill a Lily
I've already risen from this blood-filled earth for you
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Tasting Notes
What good is a beautiful man when he’s just a collection of glass and bones knocking gently together on the bed of an ocean he filled?
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I Choose Life
If the glass upon which we’re standing is so thin that one step towards truth means it will shatter beneath us, then I’d rather fall.
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The touch of our separate excitements
I draped the pillowcase over my head, opened my mouth and tried to eat the smell of him dreaming.
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Not all trees are for leaning against
What did you hope I would carry for you, beloved?
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