I've been there from the beginning grit in the oyster in Eden - like an apple seed caught in a throat caught between desire and desiring an insatiable yearn intangible And so must sentients with their lightness of being* append me somewhere. Cast Titania fashion over the first eye opening an Adam, an Eve an ass-head, opiates, wheel spin, coin toss Frantic as the butterfly chase unnetted, against the itch that incurable infection of my infectiousness. And these the tell-tale signs: obsessives moon sick mopers love struck lyricists crazed scribblers poets, belletrists, diarists till ink runs dry and words pitch into dusk. Only a young one, on the cusp staring into the night with nothing on but wondering is immune sensing the pearl of peace past all understanding
*title of Milan Kundera’s 1984 existential novel
For her Poetics prompt Kim gives us several words to choose One Word from and animate, personify. I’ve chosen limerence (an involuntary state of intense desire). This, a psychiatrist’s invention but there was no need as we already had concupiscence/with longing (cupere (L) – to long for). It is sometimes attached to eroticism but philosophically is broader, as in Kierkegaard’s ‘Concept of Anxiety’. (1844)
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