oh protecting self of fire, oh siren song
of dragon scales; by glass, a flashing wheel,
honed steel, and feathers through the scapula;
so eager grows her guardian of tears.

so cells divide an urchin by its need
for spine, for swimmers heart, for art. cut us

in half, and each retains their whole of holes.
consistency is pluripotency in love.

so ocean breathes, with grave authority.
and armor makes, re-wakes itself; fossils
desire; marine in-vertebrates our queer
anthropocene; our deeper keys, in blastomere.


//

Phaedrus: (as Lysias, cont.)

and not those who
ceasing from desire (pauomenoi tes epi-thumias)
will seek a pretext (prophasin)
for hatred (echthra)

but those who
of ceased season (pausamenou tes horas)

will then display (epi-deiknumi)
excellence (arete)
of their own

// 234α

οὐδὲ οἵτινες παυόμενοι τῆς ἐπιθυμίας ἔχθρας πρόφασιν ζητήσουσιν

ἀλλ᾽ οἳ παυσαμένου τῆς ὥρας

τότε τὴν αὑτῶν ἀρετὴν ἐπιδείξονται

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(plz dont miss
kate & tori references)

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