#language is incomplete
She wanted us to disappear into the pain, wanted to engulf us with it, wanted to obliterate everything we ever had been, everything we ever could be. But strange thing about pain - it can make the world disappear, but it can also open a magnificence inside your body, a terrible magnificence that makes you feel infinite, as if you’re blasting out in all directions, hurtling toward the stars.(And maybe you are)
Gayle Brandeis, Many Restless Concerns (a testimony): The Victims of Countess Bathory Speak in Chorus
“Ritual poetry functions in freefalls. One must release the spirits in language to reveal things, to allow things to come to the surface.”— Jason Allen-Paisant, from his essay “SILENCE, SOUND, CEREMONY | The Poetry of m nourbeSe Philip”, The Poetry Review, Vol. 111, No. 1, spring 2021
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