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the libido of a vowel

- ingeborg bachmann

Word, be that part of us

enlightened, clear, and beautiful.

Certainly an end must come

to being careful.

- Ingeborg Bachmann

why then did you all stay silent

and think no farther?

- ingeborg bachmann

I do not doubt interiors have their interiors, and exteriors have their

exteriors—and that the eye-sight has another eye-sight, and the hearing

another hearing, and the voice another voice.

- Walt Whitman

I was wrong about the categories, the binaries, S told me. I was wrong about

who was weak and who was strong, ruthless and kind, gay and straight.

- Bruce Smith

Between oblivion and affection,

which one is fear and which protection?

- Bruce Smith

Is I the insomniac’s question?

- Bruce Smith

It’s all distress and excess

- Bruce Smith

the fiction of silence

- bruce smith

I walked in the romantic garden and I walked

in the garden of ruin.

- Bruce Smith

Thy silent eares

- George Herbert

The Moments of Dominion

That happen on the Soul

And leave it with a Discontent

Too exquisite – to tell –

- Emily Dickinson