inkskinned : > it isn’t really complicated, but i still can’t tell my grandma > about it. my girlfriend is also my boyfriend and i’m her > girlboyfriend and there...
weltenwellen : > May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude
lunchboxpoems : > For years I have seen > dead animals on the highway > > and grieved for them > only to realize they are > > not dead animals > they are t shi...
lunchboxpoems : > Close your eyes. A lover is standing too close > to focus on. Leave me blurry and fall toward me > with your entire body. Lie under the covers,�...
firstfullmoon : >> Is it possible >> >> to stop loving everything? The >> owl. The hawk. Every person >> I meet. To see everyone as my >> mother. To have a...
soracities : >> “I questioned why poetry found a most unlikely companion in me. >> I didn’t fit anywhere. I was struggling as a full-time student. >> I had a�...
sapphoisms : >> “It is a muggy August morning and the air in the room is still. >> Well over half the year has gone by already, which is a worry. I >> wante...
quotemadness : > There will always be a person who looks like a poem the earth wrote > to keep you alive. > > Juansen Dizon
firstfullmoon : > “When I think of my brother’s childhood friends, of the two who > are dead, I become, in those seconds, not inconsolable but wanting > for my par...
cloudswamp : > poet of an ordinary heartbreak, chris abani
weltenwellen : > Franny Choi, Soft Science
fromdarzaitoleeza : > {QUOTES:NITYA PRAKASH/RICHARD SIKEN ,CRUSH}
wikipediaboyfriend : > unwastelandunbaby > : > > >> unwastelandunbaby >> : >> >> >>> the past isn’t behind you it coils inside your body that’s >>> w...
weltenwellen : > Ocean Vuong, from “Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong”, Night Sky > with Exit Wounds
firstfullmoon : > DAVID WRIGHT: If I can quote you at yourself, you’ve talked about > how literature can hold open human wounds, the wounds of history, > how poetry ...
luthienne : > ALT > > NATASHA TRETHEWEY, from Thrall: Poems; “Mythology”
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