a sex thinktank
Musings on the season by The Thought Erotic editors, Courtney E. Morgan, Ansley Clark, and paparounaContinue Reading
by Courtney E. Morgan
The following is a ritual which uses the powerful practice of tonglen meditation from Tibetan Buddhism to help us say goodbye to 2020. Tonglen means ‘giving and receiving’ or exchanging self with other. In this ritual, we take in the pain of 2020, transform it within our ourselves, and give or send out relief, compassion, love.Continue Reading
by Loie Rawding
One night not long into our courtship, I got thirsty for a little kissy face and ice cut straight off the block. Mix that with some sweet bubbles and easy fumes coming off the crowd and I knew I could be satisfied for the evening. M was tired of being dragged around, and then left waiting in front of a broom closet. Who could blame him? I tell him someone has to pay the bills. I’ve sold off all the war medals. Compensated myself by pressing them into my skin and once the imprint faded, I just took them off to pawn. We have to eat more than the bedpost, I say and give him a little slap across the cheek. He does not argue.Continue Reading
To draw a body is to find its center line. The line may sway energetically, but proper curve is only admitted in relation to this center.
Spread over indigo light, sweat-
dimpled and satisfied, she basks Continue Reading
The moon like a cut of beef
All violet and indigo on the ascending sky
Fluid petals
All real
On the chin
Of a new body
Julia Laxer writes across genre, reveres the ocean, and uses writing, performance art, and spiritual practice to explore archetype and ritual. She won the Orlando Prize from A Room of Her Own in 2014 and is featured in journals and anthologies including Luna Luna Magazine, The Los Angeles Review, So-to-Speak, Zócalo Public Square, and Yes, Poetry. You may reach her on Twitter @JuliaLaxer.
the way you kissed me that nightContinue Reading
sunriseContinue Reading
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