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JH Prynne, “Smaller than the Radius of the Planet,” from The White Stones
Smaller than the Radius of the Planet There is a patch like ice in the sky this evening & the wind tacks about, we are both stopped/fingered by it. I lay out my unrest like white lines on the slope, so that something out of broken sleep will land there. Look up, a vale of sorrow opened by eyes anywhere above us, the child spread out in his memory of darkness. And so, then, the magnetic influence of Venus sweeps its shiver into the heart/brain or hypothalamus, we are still here, I look steadily at nothing. "The gradient of the decrease may be de- termined by the spread in intrinsic lumin- osities"-the ethereal language of love in brilliant suspense between us and the hesitant arc. Yet I need it too and keep one hand in my pocket & one in yours, waiting for the first snow of the year.
July 6, 2023 at 7:46 PM
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Diane di Prima, Revolutionary Letter #29
Revolutionary Letter #29 beware of those who say we are the beautiful losers who stand in their long hair and wait to be punished who weep on beaches for our isolation we are not alone: we have brothers in all the hills we have sisters in the jungles and in the ozarks we even have brothers on the frozen tundra they sit by their fires, they sing, they gather arms they multiply: they will reclaim the earth nowhere we can go but they are waiting for us no exile where we will not hear welcome home 'goodmorning sister, let me work with you goodmorning brother, let me fight by your side' Diane di Prima (1971)
July 6, 2023 at 5:06 PM