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mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
it’s been quite a while since I read this chapbook and I was definitely overdue in doing so! Lisa Marie Basile’s poetry still is 🔥🔥🔥 and it felt good to relive the transfixing feeling that this book instills in the reader. 🙌🏽💯
“We jitterbug the ring, me all satin mane, / he all traje de negro. We are carousels / spinning out. I can see glimpses of my real / self on every turn, asking me to abandon the animals, /abandon my horns.”
“Here I am a mummy, never really dead. Am forever / designed to wart and want and never be full. Here I / am in the Iberian Peninsula, stuck between the / second and third gates, always desiring, never full, / never seeing myself in mirrors.”
“If we spin quickly enough, we see ourselves in the / periphery, ourselves so kind and our skin so full, and / our desires clean, cool sand. Ourselves so / human. Forgiving of ourselves. Forgiving of our / humanity, of our desire to be god like.”
“How we leave ourselves as forgotten cities, our / hearts later hypothesized and missed. I wanted to be / on fire forever. I wanted to drink tear jars. I wanted to / be loved by everyone.”
🐴🖤❤️🔥
“We jitterbug the ring, me all satin mane, / he all traje de negro. We are carousels / spinning out. I can see glimpses of my real / self on every turn, asking me to abandon the animals, /abandon my horns.”
“Here I am a mummy, never really dead. Am forever / designed to wart and want and never be full. Here I / am in the Iberian Peninsula, stuck between the / second and third gates, always desiring, never full, / never seeing myself in mirrors.”
“If we spin quickly enough, we see ourselves in the / periphery, ourselves so kind and our skin so full, and / our desires clean, cool sand. Ourselves so / human. Forgiving of ourselves. Forgiving of our / humanity, of our desire to be god like.”
“How we leave ourselves as forgotten cities, our / hearts later hypothesized and missed. I wanted to be / on fire forever. I wanted to drink tear jars. I wanted to / be loved by everyone.”
🐴🖤❤️🔥
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