February 2012
7 posts
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Like This
(Ordered the perfume that was inspired by this poem: all ingredients are sort of orange: Yellow mandarin, ginger, pumpkin…)
If anyone asks you how the perfect satisfaction of all our sexual wanting will look, lift your face and say,
Like this.
When someone mentions the gracefulness of the nightsky, climb up on the roof and dance and say,
Like this.
If anyone wants to know what...
January 2012
41 posts
“Dance, when you’re broken open.
Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage...”
– Jelaluddin Rumi (13th century)
The Journey
One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice— though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. “Mend my life!” each voice cried. But you didn’t stop. You knew what you had to do, though the wind pried with its stiff fingers at the very foundations, though their melancholy...
December 2011
36 posts
