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Hahaha I actually thought of it like a bruise too but it gave me a different feeling in your poem - more akin to blooming/blushing. So I felt like the reclamation worked.

The grasshopper poem won’t be making it into any of my work. But I could probably get a boingy-springy sound using the modular with a low-frequency oscillator modulating a filter with a high resonance! So that’s something.

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Whether intentional or not, “this purpling world” was also used by EE Cummings. Not sure if he initiated it or just borrowed it himself. I too had stolen that phrase for a currently-unfinished song. Quite a wonderful image.

I love the “blushing unconditionally” that feels like a reflection of the world’s beauty — gorgeous regardless of observation.

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