Thanks to the Half Mystic team, "A Leopard Leaps, Deep in Love" truly reached its formal and poetic potential.

The email 2 hours ago said FWD: FYI: last Friday 1 of our students threatened to rape another I teach both

Even in my own private journal the following day, I struggled to put my emotions about the performance into words. Ode time!

I tell her I’m in the midst of ugly transformation: I am the golden goo inside the chrysalis, dissolving, digesting myself, longing

Hands, gloved or naked, crinkled or smooth, withered stumps or long and blushing, offer us everything, adept at their own language

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