"The City" (1905-1915 ( Read more... )

"Confession on the Island" (1997 ( Read more... )

"[if it ever happens that the fire goes]" (2009 ( Read more... )

18.
Cum tibi sit facies de qua nec femina possit
    dicere, cum corpus nulla litura notet,
cur te tam rarus cupiat repetatque fututor
    miraris? Vitium est non leue, Galla, tibi.
Accessi quotiens ad opus mixtisque mouemur              5
    inguinibus, cunnus non tacet, ipsa taces.
di facerent ut tu loquereris et ille taceret:
    offendor cunni ( Read more... )

"XXIV. Freedom"  (1998)

Geryon's life entered a numb time, caught between the tongue and the taste
____________________________________

He got a job in the local library shelving government documents. It was
agreeable to work in a basement
humming with fluorescent tubes and cold as a sea of stone. The documents
had a forlorn austerity,
tall and ( Read more... )

"Winter" (1986 ( Read more... )

"Rendezvous" (2008)

The pomegranate fuse
of dusk on the wall

behind you--and you--
within--like a secret side

of the sky...
What do I believe?

I won't find it beyond
this room.

And when I said, oh, god,
I was not mistaken.

--Lisa Rose Spaar
from Satin Cash

V.
Quis multa gracilis te puer in rosa
perfusus liquidis urget ordoribus
         grato, Pyrrha, sub antro?
             cui flavam religas comam,
simplex munditiis? heu quotiens fidem
mutatosque deos flebit et aspera
           nigris aequora ventis
                emirabitur insolens,
qui nunc te fruitur credulus aurea,
qui semper vacuam, semper amabilem
  ( Read more... )

Aeschlyus
Agamemnon 355-384, 437-474 (458 B.C.E.)

Χορός

ὦ Ζεῦ βασιλεῦ καὶ νὺξ φιλία
μεγάλων κόσμων κτεάτειρα,
ἥτ᾽ ἐπὶ Τροίας πύργοις ἔβαλες
στεγανὸν δίκτυον, ὡς μήτε μέγαν
μήτ᾽ οὖν νεαρῶν τιν᾽ ὑπερτελέσαι
360μέγα δουλείας
γάγγαμον, ἄτης παναλώτου.
Δία τοι ξένιον μέγαν αἰδοῦμαι
τὸν τάδε πράξαντ᾽ ἐπ᾽ Ἀλεξάνδρῳ
τείνοντα πάλαι τόξον, ὅπως ἂν
365μήτε πρὸ καιροῦ μήθ ( Read more... )

"TEXT: transitivities"

1

There at the center of the boundless garden
The boundaries are still in place, unchanging
And blood count, pressure, pulse have sharply fallen

The bodies make a few attempts at crying
Without tear-pressure, though, it doesn't matter
just sex organs have moisture still remaining

White stretchers bear the bodies that they ( Read more... )