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Invocation/Out-Vocation Andrew Ramer
Invocation/Out-Vocation
it isn’t the circle we cast (inaccurate – an oval would be so much truer) it isn’t the four directions we invoke (or is it six plus center?) it isn’t the outfit garments cloaks shoes makeup styles colors or being naked it isn’t the time season reason cause occasion
what we gay men bring to our rituals that no one else can is what i once heard harry hay (or was it john burnside?) call “the silly sacred”
—Andrew Ramer
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