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“If ghost, if whore, if virgin—same origin story:
because X was a face too lovely, Y was a corpse in the lake.”
― Brute: Poems
because X was a face too lovely, Y was a corpse in the lake.”
― Brute: Poems
“Done with the whole dark
& the insect dirge
under blue lit lamps.
Done trying to remember
June, first stars & August
when I was Penelope
when I was Eurydice
when July was missing
& I was my own dull shade.”
― Brute: Poems
& the insect dirge
under blue lit lamps.
Done trying to remember
June, first stars & August
when I was Penelope
when I was Eurydice
when July was missing
& I was my own dull shade.”
― Brute: Poems
“Oh hawk, what's your damage—
are you here to pick the bones
of the years I laid waste to
like I never loved a thing? So be it.”
― Brute: Poems
are you here to pick the bones
of the years I laid waste to
like I never loved a thing? So be it.”
― Brute: Poems
“It's not anyone's fault that this world is full of omens.
By all accounts, history is a practice
of ignoring things & hoping for the best. You can drive
yourself crazy with looking. You can expect
bad luck to mark you unfooled, fooled.
Light to mark you with light.”
― Brute: Poems
By all accounts, history is a practice
of ignoring things & hoping for the best. You can drive
yourself crazy with looking. You can expect
bad luck to mark you unfooled, fooled.
Light to mark you with light.”
― Brute: Poems
“On Broad Street, ravens
lurk on the Divine Lorraine Hotel as if to say
Always a corpse flower, never a bride.”
― Brute: Poems
lurk on the Divine Lorraine Hotel as if to say
Always a corpse flower, never a bride.”
― Brute: Poems
“I have just this one heart okay I was burned I was gaslit nearly to ash on the first try
From the start I was told I was a powerful speaker I was told when & how I should speak
It's true I made a feast of my own misery I invited everyone the whole gang”
― Brute: Poems
From the start I was told I was a powerful speaker I was told when & how I should speak
It's true I made a feast of my own misery I invited everyone the whole gang”
― Brute: Poems
“Understand I need these fragments. To tell it once is not enough.
I have a hundred holy objects, everything looked upon, to break.
Time will pass, time will pass me, attaching mile-marker threats
to every causeway.”
― Brute: Poems
I have a hundred holy objects, everything looked upon, to break.
Time will pass, time will pass me, attaching mile-marker threats
to every causeway.”
― Brute: Poems
“Underneath
every pattern is a logic
it's your privilege to ignore
& yours is dreamsense yours is erasure”
― Brute: Poems
every pattern is a logic
it's your privilege to ignore
& yours is dreamsense yours is erasure”
― Brute: Poems
“Compromised by longing & looking for language
to note the differences in the map: the pointed spruces
tipped against the moon this time
& the water halflit, star-slid—but it makes no difference
in the telling.”
― Brute: Poems
to note the differences in the map: the pointed spruces
tipped against the moon this time
& the water halflit, star-slid—but it makes no difference
in the telling.”
― Brute: Poems
“but I can stand here reciting all the words I have
over the hole & that's what's left—”
― Brute: Poems
over the hole & that's what's left—”
― Brute: Poems
“Listen to me, I'm not hiding it—
I'm swimming out to meet the boats
coming armed up the river
& I wish he were watching
through a lead-black fog.
I had his book of exits learned by heart.
I thought I knew it.”
― Brute: Poems
I'm swimming out to meet the boats
coming armed up the river
& I wish he were watching
through a lead-black fog.
I had his book of exits learned by heart.
I thought I knew it.”
― Brute: Poems
“If I loved someone like that. A figure of questionable authority
figuring out which relics to preserve under cling wrap.
For the way he smelled like cedar. Mispronounced the names of plants.”
― Brute: Poems
figuring out which relics to preserve under cling wrap.
For the way he smelled like cedar. Mispronounced the names of plants.”
― Brute: Poems
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