antlantispensation

(what may have been lafferty's house, via google street view)

25 classic short mysteries.

    "A Girl Ago

No feeding on wisteria. No pitch-burner traipsing
In the nettled woods. No milk in metal cylinders, no
Buttering. No making small contusions on the page
But saying nothing no one has not said before.
No milkweed blown across your pony-coat, no burrs.
No scent of juniper on your Jacobean mouth. No crush
Of ink or injury, no lacerating wish.
                    Extinguish me from this.
I was sixteen for twenty years. By September I will be a ghost
And flickering in unison with all the other fireflies in Appalachia,
Blinking in the swarm of it, and all at once, above
And on a bare branch in a shepherd's sky. No Dove.
                        There is no thou to speak of."

--Lucie Brock-Broido

"The bar for what constitutes solidarity for disabled people is so low that simply not actively hating us is considered a radical act"

(from "Madam Satan" via In Search of Pagan Hollywood)