Eros & Thanatos

Yesterday the postman
brought me Eros
& Thanatos in the guise
of Unprotected Texts
and Kali’s Blade.
(In the temple of Artemis
the twin brother of Sleep
carries a long sword.)
Creation & Destruction,
pleasure and mortality,
the dance of love & death,
the danger of the sharp quill
willing to take risks.
Desprotegido no significa desarmado.

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2 Responses to “Eros & Thanatos”

  1. John Bloomberg-Rissman Says:
    September 12, 2007 at 4:30 pm

    And to think, in yesterday’s poem I linked eros and memoria, not thanatos … I love your “the twin brother of Sleep / carries a long sword”. Good stuff.

  2. Ernesto Priego Says:
    September 12, 2007 at 6:30 pm

    Thank you, John. And yup, I love these coincidences…

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