barefoot
powerless
24 Matching Annotations
- Sep 2024
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stocking i will not need where i am going
sock to stocking, unnecessary/overlooked objects
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my dead and living children now
context for grief
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Afghan tongue: Teach me to dance. We have no music here. And the other said with a Spanish tongue: I will teach you. Music is all we have.
two sides of the same coin
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after the shudder deep in the glass of the great windows,
begin returning to objects from earlier
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to pile the sacks of rice and beans for a family floating away on some Caribbean island plagued by frogs.
so many intricate details about the lives they left behind
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altar
more mention of worship
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Praise the kitchen radio,
transition into inanimate objects
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Oye, a blue-eyed Puerto Rican with people from Fajardo, the harbor of pirates centuries ago.
perhaps praising the often overlooked minorities who suffered
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Alabanza.
raise to God's face and sing praise
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a shame
shame inherited into women onto women
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with coriander
lots of small cultural references
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phantom girls acting out a life
the idea of gossip in the place of something missing
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all lonely
why do we gossip? does loneliness play a role?
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my deities
worship to mothers
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plumes of smoke for husbands
absent men
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That shadowy thought can win, A bright torch, and a casement ope at night, To let the warm Love in!
desire for a home/family?
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pleasant pain
sex? their daughter was pleasure
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Thy shrine, thy grove, thy oracle, thy heat Of pale-mouth'd prophet dreaming.
wishes to be all of these things
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Fairer than these, though temple thou hast none, Nor altar heap'd with flowers; Nor virgin-choir to make delicious moan Upon the midnight hours; No voice, no lute, no pipe, no incense sweet From chain-swung censer teeming; No shrine, no grove, no oracle, no heat Of pale-mouth'd prophet dreaming.
interesting-like we don't value the human soul/mind
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O happy, happy dove? His Psyche true!
knew love but did not know himself
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Their lips touch'd not, but had not bade adieu,
beautiful way to put the moments between kisses
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Saw two fair creatures,
does not discriminate based on gender
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O Goddess!
Ode is spoken/delivered to a person
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