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Author<\/h2>\nPriscilla McGreer<\/p>\n
Priscilla McGreer is a young poet and a student of classical and English literature. She is deeply interested in mythology, esoteric philosophy and ancient spiritual traditions. She is currently working on a series of poems that critiques patriarchal history and culture from the point of view of Lilith, a figure from Hebrew mythology. \u201cConfessions of a Self-Loathing Narcissist\u201d is her first book.<\/p>\n
\u201cConfessions of a Self-Loathing Narcissist\u201d explores deeply personal, yet profoundly universal, themes such as friendship, childhood, love, sex and death. \u201cConfessions\u201d uses the cosmic lens of astrology to examine the nature of self-hood as it develops through critical life phases. Each of the twelve poems is named after one of the houses of the zodiac. The series begins with the birth of self-identity, the traditional theme of the first house, and ends with the mystical dissolution of the egoic self, the experience of the twelfth house.<\/p>\n
House of Friendship
\nwhen the world descends on itself there will be no safety in tunnels or in towers
\nwhen the stores are empty and the streets are bloody
\nand the fish stop swimming and the bees stop humming
\nand the crops have rusted and the wells are dry
\nwhen the angel with a foot on each continent unrolls the scroll with all our names
\nit\u2019s you and me against all the people who never saw past first impressions
\nfor the teleology of selfishness is fear
\nand God will leave us to each other
\nbut your welfare is safe forever
\nin the pockets of mended promises we kept for each other
\ntattered though we were with our broken teenaged hearts
\nwe soothed our desperations in our instant recognition of each other
\nand we grew up on each other\u2019s backs and in each other\u2019s conscience
\nand we became more powerful than government administration
\nscoffed at Plato and laughed at Christ, those little peewees,
\nboisterous with shared conviction
\nwhen I smashed the life I was born to
\nand rejected the parasitic lovers I was devoted to,
\nnose-diving into adulthood a chain-smoking romance-aholic
\nyou were the good company that made it all terrible funny
\nyours is the impression left when I consider myself in the world<\/p>\n