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“to be the lightning”
when the lightning strikes me back
and my cracked-cup mind can no longer hold
all the subtle fire it’s meant to contain
find me at the edge of a cold, dark place
i wanted to be the lightning,
not simply the bearer of it,
but sometimes both dream and nightmare
outpace me and i cannot find my way home
so if the world begins to slant
remind my parched mouth
that i am both cupbearer and bitter wine
reforge both sides of my twisted spine
when the lightning
strikes
me
back
-Allēna 7/31/2025#gay #gaypoet #LGBTQ #lgbtqia #NearDeathExperience #NEISvoid #poetry #Processing #queer #seizures #trans #transpoet
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Walt Whitman's 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd' & 'To what you said', Michelangelo , the Black American poet Carl Cook, Mary Shelley, Mikhail Kuzmin, and texts from 'How can you write a poem when you're dying of AIDS'
These & many more at our 3 Feb concert with Ben Vonberg-Clark (tenor), James Atkinson (baritone), Nigel Foster (piano).
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/out-of-the-shadows-an-evening-of-music-for-lgbt-history-month-tickets-449449454417
#music #newmusic #poetry #Americanpoetry #Blackpoetry #Michelangelo #WaltWhitman #song #songs #AIDS #gaypoetry #gaypoet
