great poetry…

September 30, 2023

 

The silly thing to do, I think, is dismiss things we can’t explain or that we don’t have any way of measuring. Maybe, it is a phenomena of brain disturbance. But, on the other hand, many people have experienced things they found extremely weird. Maybe we just have to shut the fuck up and be quiet to see ghosts? 

Jeanette Winterson – Interviewed by Eva Wiseman 

Lilith, originally a spirit of hostile winds in the Arabian Peninsula became a devourer of children, a succubus and finally a Queen of vampires. First wife of Adam according to Ben Sira and a hostile demon Queen according to The Zohar.  

Lilith was a foreign spirit, and intruder, charms were made to ward her off – and angels were sent to stop her breeding lilins into the world. The angelic messengers had to make a truce and an agreement – she was here to stay. She rose from being a spirit fated to die, like a dinosaur – but still her legacy and prominence spread across the worlds as history advanced. The more bloodshed and havoc we find – the more Lilith we also find.  

Lilith rose to prominence in the world from the shades of storms and bad augurs. Over time she has been associated with the Moon, with Venus, the mother of Djinn and the mother of Sidhe (‘fairies’). She has been approached as a succubus – or their mother, as a Spectre and a Sorceress. From Sumer and Chaldea she spread her wings over Edom, Syria, Arabia and Europe. Blavatsky saw her as a primordial ethereal shadow of sexuality – and it is from her theosophy we find the modern ideas that see her as an icon of the suppressed woman that seeks dominion.   

Nicholaj – Rosh ha Sitan and the transitions of Lilith 

A Thousand Flamingos 

September 29, 2023

in the afterglow 
of an evening rain 
 
i lay down 
in the grass 
and think of you 
 
my body aches 
like an after-kiss 
 
breaking in soft fires 
and wildflowers 
 
my dear, 
i will always be 
this tender for you. 

Sanober Khan  

She looks at them…

September 29, 2023

She does this thing with her eyes, it’s a trick, it drives men crazy; she looks at them, stares, her eyes bore into them, and I imagine they feel seen in a way they’ve never been seen before, I’ve tried doing it myself, in front of the mirror, but when I do it, it just looks like I’m squinting. 

Linn Ullmann – Unquiet 

I want to fuck and be fucked, to be so interested in them that the sex is interrupted by conversation, and then the conversation by sex. Maybe I just want intimacy, the tactile kind. The getting-to-know-you-from-the-inside-out kind. The three-fingers-deep, mouth-tasting-of-you kind. The I’m-hungry-let’s-make-toast-at-three-in-the-morning-so-we-can-keep-going kind. The lesbian kind. 

 
Tilly Lawless – Nothing But My Body 

secret language

September 28, 2023

Poetry remakes and prolongs language; every poetic language begins by being a secret language, that is, the creation of a personal universe, of a completely closed world. The purest poetic act seems to re-create language from an inner experience that … reveals the essence of things.  

Mircea Eliade – Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy