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theanimalblog:

Dagmar the Rothschild giraffe nuzzles her newborn calf in their enclosure at Chester Zoo in Cheshire, England  Picture: REUTERS/Phil Noble

blacksandbooks:

Last Chance for the Tarzan Holler

Thylias Moss

ISBN 0892552433

The latest volume of this important and highly original poet’s work is a three-part journey into the pathology of human emotions. In a cascade of language — ordinary speech, preaching, song, banter, erudition — all that is good spirals into regions of horror and grotesque inconsistency with consequences as contemporary as headlines and as eternal as myth. Intense and brilliantly sustained, these poems limn the humane being tested, the plunge into strangeness, and finally recovery, the salvaging of wonder after all.

This Did Not Happen by Thylias Moss

kathleenjoy:

This did not happen



although I have memories of it:
a doctor unwrapping a tutu
so I knew I was in a hospital
but one unlike any other
practicing strange medicine
but this strangeness has been effective


A hospital for dancers?




I was in pink,
sequined

I had been in a street,
an alley and

I was left there, tutu shredded,
I couldn’t dance

anymore.

No animals other than myself, so the animal
in me

emerged



but tried to hurt no one

else.

This Did Not Happen by Thylias Moss

kathleenjoy:

This did not happen



although I have memories of it:
a doctor unwrapping a tutu
so I knew I was in a hospital
but one unlike any other
practicing strange medicine
but this strangeness has been effective


A hospital for dancers?




I was in pink,
sequined

I had been in a street,
an alley and

I was left there, tutu shredded,
I couldn’t dance

anymore.

No animals other than myself, so the animal
in me

emerged



but tried to hurt no one

else.