#this too is dayspring coded

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- Dayspring, Anthony Oliveira

[ohholydyke]

- Dayspring, by Anthony Oliveira

[ohholydyke]

- Dayspring, by Anthony Oliveira

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Dayspring by Anthony Oliveira

[ohholydyke]

- Dayspring, Anthony Oliveira

[ohholydyke]

“pile up the holy books like driftwood on the beach swarming with lice and crawl with them dig and bite and try to find something to eat in the ink and hair and you will go hungry

language picked clean to the bone

who could write love when the sediment of history is crushing to powder to new stone

turning marvels and monstrosities to marble

instead let the mountain and the rock hide me

let the water cold and new trickle amid the dust where I finally sleep and let the mulch of me the amber sap extruded into souvenir bottles feel something better

love is what ruins. love is what costs. love is a flaming sword at our backs a garden left to ruin and to wild

gone to seed

but

there is ruth and there is naomi

whose vow they repeat in cheap tinsel

not knowing the women they echo when

they knit themselves to one another:

where you go i will go

and where you stay i will stay

your people will be my people

and your God my God

a kingling unkinged by slingshot sling

and ahead of me on the road: a boy a dog and an angel

i am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine

teeth white as sheep

love is as strong as death

passion fierce as the grave

its flashes are the flashes of fire

love is a raging flame

many waters cannot quench it

neither can all the floods come to drown it

i am lost

but even in the wilderness i would know you”

- Dayspring by Anthony Oliveira

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- Dayspring, Anthony Oliveira

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Favorite gay disciple?

John the beloved