Another World, April 2023
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In this month’s Another World
A Man Down By the Stream, and Other Poems
by Rune Kjær Rasmussen
Several poems from Rune Kjær Rasmussen
I see a man down by the stream
who seems to be looking for a pair of oars
without ever having
required a boat for himself,
but who knows, maybe the right oars
will appear in the grass some day.
In this installment, we look at the music of Omiri, Kalakan, and Aman Aman
A Pantoum to Dark Mother
A poem from Faunalia, a collection of stunning poems from Alice Fulmer
Naked
by Rhyd Wildermuth
An essay on shame and the Eros of the body.
The old women and the old men, the younger men and the younger women, and all of us in between were naked, and we were beautiful because we were bodies. We sat in the heat together, meditating as the steward waved birch branches in the air (and later beat our backs with them), just being bodies. To say there’s nothing “erotic” or “sexual” about it wouldn’t be quite true, though: because what else do you call the energy of extreme healing heat sweeping across your skin from rocks, the light touch of water sprinkled from wet birch branches, and the pounding of those same branches against your skin at the end except “erotic?”
And I think that’s the core tragedy of our separation from body. The rays of the sun warming your skin, the light breath of wind across your neck, the tickle of grass under bare feet, the smell of pollen, leaf, and flower from warm forests and the sharp bite of winter’s chill: this is the Eros of the earth.