“I will lose you. It is written into this poem the way the fisherman’s wife knits his death into the sweater.”
— Gregory Orr, “The Sweater,” The Caged Owl: New & Selected Poems
“He looks at me with the softest eyes that I have ever known.”
— C.H (via canadiemrps)
2023
invitation, mary oliver // the unabridged journals, sylvia plath // happy xmas, john lennon // north country, mary oliver // i am running into a new year, lucille clifton // salt, nayyirah waheed // diaries of franz kafka // bird by bird, anne lamott // sunrise, louise glück
the name of the person you love is more than language
Patti Smith, Yusef Komunyakaa, Nicki Lantz, Claude McKay, Pablo Neruda, Marina Tsvetaeva, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Tennessee Williams, James Joyce
buy me a coffee
the tragic hero attains something like divine completeness, except that for human beings completeness is death.
“Forgive my fingers for when they find your body they will lose themselves.”
— Tyler Knott Gregson
a soft epilogue .
she-ra and the princesses of power, nd stevenson / seventy years of sleep #4, nikka ursula (n.t). / cottage and wildlowers, hailey e. herrera / ireland, liza anne / sleeping in, leslie allen
“We are all the dead. I am not apart from you for long, except for breath, except for everything.”
— Forgotten Portraits by Janine Solursh (via decreation)
“I fell asleep in the deep velvet of this wood; I dreamt divine things.”
— Delmira Agustini, from Morning Songs: Poems; “The Wings,” c. 1910