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Gnosticism I

10/13/2016

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"Wings." Image by TJ Gehling via Creative Commons/Flickr.
Heaven’s lips! I dreamed
of a page in a book containing the word bird and I
entered bird.
Bird grinds on,
 
grinds on, thrusting against black. Thrusting
wings, thrusting again, hard
banks slap against it either side, that bird was exhausted.
 
Still, beating, working its way and below in dark woods
small creatures
leap. Rip
 
at food with scrawny lips.
Lips at night.
Nothing guiding it, bird beats on, night wetness on it.
A lion looks up,
Smell of adolescence in these creatures, this ordinary
night for them. Astonishment
 
inside me like a separate person,
sweat-soaked. How to grip.
For some people a bird sings, feathers shine. I just get this this.
 
--Anne Carson (2005)
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Harry
11/14/2018 05:48:57 am

Excellent. Truly.

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Annie Savoy link
11/14/2018 08:47:56 am

Agreed. She’s SO good. I think my next tattoo will be one of her poems

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