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Book #synchronicity: two recent reads that address long-distance relationships. ❤️👯♂️❤️
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Book #synchronicity: two recent reads that address long-distance relationships. ❤️👯♂️❤️
pickI heard poet Emily Berry read Some Fears on a podcast and wanted more, so I was delighted to find her 2013 debut collection with that poem in it. (Hear the poem here: https://youtu.be/6UOTDt4ATu0 )
The slim collection is a treat, with serious social analysis going on beneath clever dark comedy. Life as performance: who we are versus how we are perceived. Honest, beautiful and slightly surreal. #poetry
When the terrible thing happened someone said
Be strong
As if we might lay cables for bones, petrify our whole soft viscera
(The skin is a sort of protective organ and yet it is not safe from most
things, it is a jolly weak kind of coating to put on a vulnerable person.)
I repeat the phrase to someone in crisis
I do not know if they managed to achieve it
#poetry
“Phew-ee! It‘s hot, and sad. I miss you. Love, Me.”
The picture on the front is of Michelangelo‘s David,
which Nurse Glory forbade me to see. Like all
mental health professionals, she‘s obsessed with
genitalia. “P.S.”, I add, “David‘s ball-sack looks like an
upside-down heart.” My innocence is really incredible.
#poetry
(Internet photo)
Yesterday‘s library book haul might be a record for me. I had access to a car so there was no need to hold myself back. I‘m already nearly finished the delightful poetry collection at the top of the pile, which is also the tagged book for this post. See anything here you want to tell me about? #litsyloveslibraries
