Anonymous asked:
Poetry recs? Like your absolute absolute favourites
saintjoan answered:
Okay these are the ones that made me die a little
- “all people are driven to the point of eating their gods”
- “if I love you / is that a fact or a weapon?”
- “the kingdom of god is within you because you ate it”
- “the blood in your mouth – I wish it was mine”
- “his mouth is heaven, his kisses falling over me like stars”
- “I am singing now while rome burns”
- “that corpse you planted last year in your garden,
has it begun to sprout? will it bloom this year?” - “so the gods sank to human shape with longing”
- “those imperial, disimpassion’d eyes”
- “this beautiful speed will be the end of us.
those are stars in our teeth.” - “if love wants you, if you’ve been melted into stars”
- “out of the ash I rise with my red hair / and I eat men like air”
- “your body hurts me as the world hurts god”
- “lessons on loving a prophet”
- “and I, infinitesimal being, drunk with the great starry void”
- “tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine”
- “to love a prophet is to become their desert”
- “the void rushing up to greet us in the absence of god”
