I am Purr Bailey ( Read more... )

I no longer see humans as crafted, engineered animals. No more facade of soft, familiar lines. But the jutting of ancient chins and the faults of evolution - a kaleidoscope of primate. I yearn so much for my sloppy unsymmetrical cells to rearrange and employ chlorophyll and then I can leave this disappointing chain of humanities and be reimbursed ( Read more... )

Bathe me in the Nile - scrub my breasts.
Wash me in the Tiber - comb my hair.
Splash me in the Mississippi - scratch the grit from under my nails.
Drown me in the Tigris - make me soft and young and virgin.
Cleanse me, renew me, purify me,
With your streaming fingers. 
Baptize me in the Euphrates - restore me to something I never was.         

 
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If I was Alice my rabbit hole would be something narrow and self-constructed. And when I fall there will be no poetry or ink, but music, instead. The percussion of my ribs cracking and limbs warping - tinkling the most conscious of glockenspiels. The strings will be roots that crack like whips as I file, funnel, fling through - strumming the ( Read more... )

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing ( Read more... )

 

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inching inkling of intention,
funneling through each dimension,
sighing sucking grappling free,
splayed out before you is me. 

romantic cynic,
sensuous ascetic,
contradictions are my only parent. 

Sometimes it's hard to believe that I can fit into anybody's arms.