Minotaur Grief

[michaelsylvan]

"I'm disturbed by the want-biological, / as if my animal wanted to speak, / the body does want to speak but lives / under the mind... / I think of this as Minotaur grief, / the near-human half-poem / within its maze, waiting in bestial confusion until / Ariadne would, with taper, find her way / and as another kind of poet / have sex with the near-

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[leafshimmer]

Interesting that he has the Minotaur awaiting Ariadne rather than Theseus.
Perhaps someday you and I will speak of the Minotaur... He is a very potent image for me...

Minotaur talk

[michaelsylvan]

I'd love more conversations about the Minotaur with you! I'm returning to the labyrinth again with this poet, after a long time of not resonating as strongly with that work, though in my NYC years that was a focused practice...