metronome #1

your breath the sweet cradle 
of my nights, your chest rising and falling
the metronome that stilled my heart
my paranoia melting in your arms
i was safe there / i was not always there
i came to this place and i was alone
even though i was always saying we
are never alone, i was alone
your breath the vacuum
of my nights, my chest tightening and tightening
the metronome that killed my heart
my paranoia creeping into crevices
i was safe there / i was not always there

On Lorca’s Poet in New York | Work in Progress

by Maureen N. McLane What a strange, vital, careening book—what a book for now. Yet also, what a fascinating document of the early 20th century. A Poet in New York, “New York in a Poet,” as Lorca himself glossed it: this is clearly one of the great works of transnational modernism, a cracked A…
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Text – H.R.7311 – 117th Congress (2021-2022): Countering Malign Russian Activities in Africa Act | Congress.gov | Library of Congress

Text for H.R.7311 – 117th Congress (2021-2022): Countering Malign Russian Activities in Africa Act
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