Lips

One morning in bed
I felt the blue sky
dance against my skin
like the lips of
anonymous strangers

Masturbation

texts of despair

Many poets develop a sense of positive loss, like Clarice Lispector, or Anna Akhmatova, in whose poetry we read of something never lost at the very bottom of loss, or Marina Tsvetayeva, in whose texts the stakes are something that she never had. Theirs are all texts of despair, that is, of hope. Elsewhere I have shown how the same happened in a much more novelistic way, fleshed out in the work of someone such as Karen Blixen.

Helene Cixous
Poetry passion and history: Marina Tsvetayeva
The Inscription of passion in writing (Chapter four)

Superstition

Superstition is a part of the very being of humanity; and when we fancy that we are banishing it altogether, it takes refuge in the strangest nooks and corners, and then suddenly comes forth again, as soon as it believes itself at all safe.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Maxims and Reflections