Tim Barrus Blog
Posts tagged with intimacy
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If It’s Poetry At Least U Will Have a Defense
I am allowed to write about intimacy a little bit in novels but it’s intimacy that really scares you. The American family itself is highly conflicted. But if I wrap poetry around the thing (I do not always get away with this NYT), it becomes more mysterious, it’s smoother than…
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HIS DARKLING TONGUE
his darkling tongue of pour/ inside my bitterness whose lights were like film, hurried/ grainy all my shit is grainy trix in a filthy rain as if his cock down my throat was another dead day of gravestones on the lawn/ https://www.instagram.com/timbarrus/
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A PLAY THEY WROTE
THEY CALLED IT FUCKING IN PAJAMAS Do not demand that I censor them. There was no fucking in pajamas or in anything else. It was a play that explored submission, dominance, and vulnerability. This is far, far more complex than fucking in pajamas. These are not innocent children. They will…
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2B Held
I loathe being touched. By anyone. I hate it when they hug me. I freeze. It is a deep flaw within me. I have been battered around enough to see intimacy as a real threat. I have tried to shake it. It will not be undone. They turn toward one…