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> He wants to be tender
> and merciful. That sounds overly valorous.
> Sounds like penance. And his hands?
> His hands keep turning into birds and
> flying away from him. Him being you.
> Yes. Do you love yourself? I don’t have to
> answer that. It should matter.

Richard Siken, Unfinished Duet (via romeinruins)

2013-07-30 1:30:47 ¶ ● ⬈

mlledevoltaire:

> LITERATURE MEME | Poets (1/5) – Richard Siken

> “I was trying to describe the kingdom, but the letters / kept smudging as I wrote them: the hunter’s heart, / the hunter’s mouth, the trees and the trees and the / space between the trees, swimming in gold. The words / frozen. The creatures frozen. The plum sauce / leaking out of the bag. Explaining will get us nowhere.”

> Snow and dirty rain