The Lover the Beloved
The lover lowers her gaze and the Beloved raises it until lover is engulfed in oceans too vast to circumscribe and around thei…
Aesthetic
AESTHETICÂ
Poetry is what can’t be said
any other way
Verse is thoughts searching for poetry
8/23/2004 (from Cooked Oranges — image of creature by Salihah Moore, Lion of the Sea)
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