#13th balloon

[starsalvation]

—Mark Bibbins, 13th Balloon

[lifeinpoetry]

William S. Burroughs said cut into the present and the future leaks out

When I cut into the past what leaks out is you

— Mark Bibbins, from 13th Balloon

[lgbtqreads]

New Releases: February 2020

New Releases: February 2020

City of a Thousand Feelings by Anya Johanna DeNiro (1st)

The City of a Thousand Feelings doesn’t let certain people inside its walls. It’s a place where emotions can become visible, but it flees the approach of a makeshift army who want to enter. Two of the trans women in this army forge a deep, complicated, and at times contentious friendship spanning thirty years. They must come to terms with…

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[starsalvation]

—Mark Bibbins, 13th Balloon

[lifeinpoetry]

There are days when everything feels like a metaphor for your having died

There are days when nothing does

— Mark Bibbins, from 13th Balloon

[lifeinpoetry]

We lived on a planet of disaster We lived in a country of misery We lived in a state of horror We lived in a city of scandal We lived in a house of daily dying from which to distract ourselves we sometimes embroidered the filthiest jokes we could think up on every available towel pillowcase sheet I shouldn’t say it saved us but in many ways it did

— Mark Bibbins, from 13th Balloon

[lifeinpoetry]

An artist places broken figurines in beehives and the bees build their honeycombs on them mending and mutating the shards Grief operates like that its collaborators unwitting unaware of the work being done Grief arrives as shadows           of bees darkening hives of loss

— Mark Bibbins, from 13th Balloon

[lifeinpoetry]

There’s a song we know that tells us beauty’s where we find it but tonight I’m sure there’s even more where we left it

— Mark Bibbins, from 13th Balloon