#babynectar
“I am not interested in other words for honey. I am interested in honey.”
-Sina Queyras, from MxT
DANDYISM………..Plate 2015.
Objects of Desire by Gaultier
I will butter my hair. I will unfasten the last. I will tremble like you when I glimpse the visible ink peeling at the edge of my cheek. I have danced on the edge of ignorance. I have wept impossible dreams. I have melted nothing. I have stood in the warped curve of a light that should have taken me away yet left me with the human kind I have never been.
Patti Smith, from Auguries of Innocence; “Mummer Love”
“Honeyed poisons choke the heart,”—Nikos Kazantzakis, tr. by Kimon Friar, from Modern Greek Poetry; “To Virtue,”
“He placed honey on her tongue, and pear jelly, and brown, moist sugar. She swallowed his steaming tea. And he kissed her, again and again, sharing sweetness and heat between them.”
— Catherynne M. Valente,Deathless
“long kiss like nectar, / leaves one ruby-throated, wings / a blur, heart afloat”—Greg Sellers, haiku journal entry, 30 March 2018
“Dark-eyed, dark-haired, with smiles of enchanting archness and a step like a fawn—”—Mary Shelley , de “ The Mortal Immortal”, escrito c. Dezembro de 1833
(porondas violentas de emoção)
“O love, you had so many thorns! I didn’t want to strip them - I believed they would flower.”—Lucian Blaga, from Thorns (tr. by Andrei Condrescu)
Chadwick Tyler