Wednesday, December 31, 2025

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"Rekhti poetry used a female poetic persona addressing, most typically, a female beloved, and the language used was everyday female-coded language rather than the male-coded and higher register language typically used in other ghazal poems."

"Morte… morte… Bruges-la-Morte… — the cadences of the last bells, weary and slow, little, worn-out old bells which seemed to be shedding petals — was it on the town? Was it on a grave?"
—Georges Rodenbach via

"In a sense, frottage is all about riding the glitch and agreeing to dabble in the hauntological."

   but mystical hope
in the dregs of the winter
   rabbit disappears

moon that from a western shore
tracked my shadow on black ice

Carrington tarot.

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