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Language of the Solstice, Favors of the Moon

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You are what is female and you shall be called Eve. And what is masculine shall be called God. And from your name Eve we shall take the word Evil. And from God’s, the word Good. Now you understand patriarchal morality.        -- Judy Grahn I won't let the good men go unsung Good men throw their bodies on the lives of their mothers and their children and their wives and the unknown.  Good men don't die alone Each day this year, my soul has been punched and stunned by bullet-men ripping through the dance we do by bully-men raping girls or threatening to by barging-men pushing first through the doors of power while good men act as if nothing mattered more than to restore the faded elf to the christmas tree to greet you every morning with toast and tea to be the hand pressed in the hole the bullet tore I refuse to let the good men go unsung They are not many.  They are one and one and one ....   ...

The Vanishing Point

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All these years learning to verse,  learning to draw,  learning to live with my skin on, it dawns: there's something sublime  about the line.   In the beginning was the word,  the word  nobody heard, and only the shadow,  only the shadow  knows where the hell  the line goes. Perhaps It isn't where a line begins or where it ends, but whether it deems itself feigned or suddenly, strangely ordained. online punch line  dateline pipeline underline and  borderline bottom line  beeline,  shoreline,  timberline and waterline front line,  baseline,  byline fault line skyline,  waistline,  neckline hemline tagline,  hard line  deadline lifeline main line. Says Rudolf Arnheim, the line that describes the beautiful is elliptical.  It has simplicity ...