translate the break – antigone

ἐγὼ μὲν οὖν πείσομαι – I will at least obeyτοῖς βεβῶσιν – those who are establishedἐν τέλει – in chief authorityαἰτοῦσα τοὺς ὑπὸ χθονὸς praying – to those undergroundἴσχειν ξύγγνοιαν,- to have indulgenceὡς βιάζομαι τάδε – because I am violated in these things. οὔτοι συνέχθειν, ἀλλὰ…

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Categories: confessionals Poetry Words

Let’s Gamble

Lets gamble, with time – with vulnerability, we have ninety-nine days till 2026.it been a long time since i seen my facemy smile again, let’s gamble away my fear. lets gamble away the time, and by the end of the yearmaybe by the thanksgiving parade,ill not…

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Categories: Poetry

morning pushback

There is such resistance / trapped within the striation of my muscles , sharing it would be self-indulgent, selfish, and unproductive.break down to share, either through talking or writing. Talking didn’t help much, or is helping less but if felt good to write this

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libra

he left looking for a fix or a fuck,Whether it was a Coke or a girl, he did not care.Gino was off the rails, unbalancedUnbalanced Gino was scary, unbalanced Gino could stop Niagara FallsUnbalanced Gino devastates.

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Categories: Poetry

the lake it take

lost in between the cracksIt calls us near – the sirens on cups in subterranean cafe we played in that 20′ haze,hot tub nights, kill bill on a dipson theatre iberia blue opm in the aughts,our weekly rituals in the haze. meaningfully talks not superficial.supportive, funnyhe…

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meeting

my body doesn’t want to do this.small gurgles pressurize in my belly, theyamalgamate growing.inhale and exhale become less, forgetting to breathe calmly.my hands shake. my lips press together, andI lick my lips while they are inside my mouth.the back of my leg, chicken skin quivering. when…

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St. Stan’s

I studied your yearbook,Felt you there in a room – leading –Head perched on neck adorned by a bob.I trolled through thousands of newspapers.your story shone just as your name, whichtoppled to your demiseI walked to your tombstone,A short measure from where the toppled was buried…

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3

They like the furies the fates, and graces,the morai, the erinyes, the charites

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Advertising

tension, with unusable force bursts, waiting. look – see a soft glow.the first of many long breaths before you’re subconscious and coerced to take some more, just a few more. Stop, more  </END> Every time I look at social media, I get more anxious.

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Kindergarden

90 minutes 12 minutes –plus 3 minutes for cleanup-6 groupsgo.bingo, you get a sticker andGo, you got a bingo – flower in a pot.and go flower with circle petals bingoand goStrawberry, what color are strawberries? Do they have their seeds on the outside or inside? bingoGo,…

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Everything is fake now

Everything is fake nowon social media,Reference your resources.This one didn’t finish that 14 million dollar projectThe other didn’t go to law school. But where confidence lies.

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Family History

Don’t forget where you’re from,but don’t look in a newspaper,don’t ask any questions.If you do seek answersthe familiar cuts you off –left with only keywords and search results. Maybe you should not have lookedin the databases, the newspapers,the fulton history of buffalo.But you did and atsunami…

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Poets

I wanted to askof the old protest,while the current one was happeningWe sat in a basement listening to the consciousness suitesweeping us off are feetaloofwe waituntil next time.

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Afoot

Draw a picture of the footfor Dr. Williams. Foot muscles,are different from your hands. Try to controlyour toes –mental pain? Practice, push thebig toe downinto the ground. Push the pinky iso Kai iso with the big toe. Next push the heel  Isometricpressure down. After time your brain is freed from the torment it…

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villanelle

IN CONSTRUCTION No one to fear, but me to fight,one eye in – the past, one – mouth to sayrage forward purpose, move towards the light. Though family splits, friends with bigger blights,New souls born today, old souls yesterday,No one to fear but me to fight,…

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iso kai iso

– iso kai iso – equal and equal – balance It’s been 10 years sincemy dad lastly gasped on April Fool’s Day. My two children never met him; one was in my belly, and the other was yet to be. My son loves April Fool’s Day…

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Pythian Instructions

I can not liemy muse has caressed my templesafter falling to my knees at her threshold. Anima Hilda…American English Grecian goddess…I bring Giftsof my braids,long strains of hairbunched into threeseparated, twistedI make a Vocation. I’ve seen the grey-eyed starethat penetrates,when our lenses meet,after you twist your…

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Surge of Energy

Ride with it when you wake up and have a surge of energy.gloomy skies colding in opposition to the spring.give it up Janus, we yearn to spring forth.A bit more waiting?before thedaffodils project up toward the always goldenand we walk upward withbarefeet.

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evvepe moi kaliope

Springtime –The ice boomIt lifts. logos, theword flowsfrom the erie lakedown the riveraround a grand island,down the rapidsplummeting some 83 ftinto the gorge andonto Lake Ontariovoyaging onward to the seaway existing into the Atlantic Ocean.

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an excerpt

This form would breath downmy neck down my backtulips tipping downaway from the sunDrooping familar whispering in mytickling In theresitance moving

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