I’ve never seen compassion as an abstract noun. If you accept that we’re all composed largely of other people we’ve known, then compassion becomes a form of self-love. Compassion, composition. Awkwardness and grace live side by side.
Kraus, Chris and Selah Saterstrom (Interviewer). “Interview.” in: N Sky. Vol. 4, No. 2, August 2006. (English).
coldcupcafe: “in Fancy Dress as a Side of Bacon[.]” This little Peggy got married.
In late june/july I will be running around southeast/eastern-ish USA with Kristen Stone and water buffalo to promote/celebrate her amazing new book and also a bit of mine. OUR FLOW IS HARD is also trying to start a small reading series in Minneapolis, and some of the readings are going to be themed similarly, like gross lady poems. The queer and the deceptively formal. These will be all tiny events. Details about this and other readings soon!
i wrote a post on the velveteen rabbit and velve-teens over at montevidayo (caption from source): Riva London stars as the velveteen rabbit in Ballet Theatre San Luis Obispo’s holiday production.PHOTO BY BARRY GOYETTE (Source: http://www.montevidayo.com/?p=2784)
Seeker: I’m lost and cold and the voices won’t leave me alone. Can I hide inside your cheek?
Cheek1: Yes. A cheek is a stretchable and warm substance. I am compassionate, moist and slightly bumpy on the inside. I bleed once a month, but with you inside, I will stop bleeding for at least three months, up to nine months. You can hide inside my cheek, a cheek within a cheek within a cheek, if you shall be my egg.
cheex in the city advice column #1
I’m starting an advice column with some cheeks. Please ask questions. We provide serious answers, as well as serial answers. (but really, when appropriate, we will actually give “advice”)<a href=”http://twincheeks.tumblr.com/post/22305060671/cheex-in-the-city-advice-column-1″>twincheeks</a>:<blockquote>
