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inspired by the erotic works of Sheikh Nefzaoui
Through these lines in which sperm and prayer are joined, I have attempted to break down the walls that separate the the celestial from the terrestrial, body from soul, the mystical from the erotic.
The Almond by Nedjma
a space devoted to the erotic, mystical, & somatic path of life
You will eat because you will be hungry. And then you will feed the world, because you will not be able to resist the impulse to share the bounty.
—Wild Mercy, mirabi starr
Forugh Farrokhzad, Iranian poet & filmmaker
erotic literature
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I deliver this to you with the mud of this body & the river of this voice.
I tried to write the civil way — but the road was blocked with the crowd of veiled bodies on their way to another god..
my love, the pen has never been for us. it’s always belonged to the men returning from the cave with a new religion.
every word is a solitary cell holding a prisoner, even life— which lived free as a whisper and played in the ear of a boy for a moment … this boy who spilled himself into the mountains. Even life became prisoner in the earth bodies receiving the tidal tremble of her visit.
You know this, it’s man search we’ve saved, in ink. It’s the truth we buried, beneath it.
Tell me of the exiled women who survived the dictatorship of pen, who too made love to the mountains and returned with the same answers — who preserved the truth and for its sake, left it unwritten.
women & god journal
Ghada Samman, Syrian writer & author of the erotic
I saw in women a revolution and a means of liberation.
—Nizar Qabbani
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hand-made in Brookyln, with love <3
‘the kiss’ by Gustav Klimt