Poetics is the difference between whatever it is that you think you have to say and whatever it is that language does.

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Poetics is the relation and the difference between content and form.

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Poetics thinks and enacts the differences that constitute the relation between content and form.

“With you, intimacy colors my voice. Even ‘hello’ sounds like ‘come here’.”

— Warsan Shire

kissing is so erotic? loving gaze is so erotic? slow dancing in the ambience of candlelight with smiles on your faces is so erotic? the more i remove myself from sex, the more i indulge in the inherent eroticism of other forms of physical touch, sometimes even the absence of them