Raphael Delarue

violentwavesofemotion: “Fastidious, fascinatingly cruel.” — Al Rocheleau, from Falling River: Poems (1976-2006); “Ant Farms,”

lifeinpoetry: haven’t you learned by now that trust is just an omen? your body most valuable for the way it inherits silencelike an empty bottle whose first flaw is thirst.beneath the bloodstreak, crater of minced glass,your skin is still the blankest page.scrub the carpet to bone, strip the drywall down – look, it can be […]

ulrikke7: A case of contradictions, both of them true.There is a God. There is no God.Where is the problem? I am quite sure thatthere is a God in the sense that I am sure love is no illusion. I am quite surethere is no God, in the sense that I am surethere is nothing which resembles […]

lifeinpoetry: He’ll speak me a way out of the dark,some hidden tunnel or underpassthat I have to crawl through on my hands and knees. When I come out, blinking, filthy,I’ll finally have changed,become a new and original universe,a body of unknown stars. — Rebecca Tamás, from “The Ophelia Letters,” The Ophelia Letters