Deo Volente

Writer/Lawyer. My novel “A People’s History of the Vampire Uprising” is out now on Little,Brown and Company

[readmydesire]

to love someone long-term is to attend a thousand funerals of the people they used to be by heidi priebe

[poisonedsequin]

this is me letting you go by heidi priebe

[askyea-poesy]

As long as there is love, there will be grief. The grief of time passing, of life moving on half-finished, of empty spaces that were once bursting with the laughter and energy of people we loved. As long as there is love there will be grief because grief is love's natural continuation. It shows up in the aisles of stores we once frequented, in the half-finished bottle of wine we pour out, in the whiff of cologne we get two years after they've been gone. Grief is a giant neon sign, protruding through everything, pointing everywhere, broadcasting loudly, “Love was here.” In the finer print, quietly, “Love still is.”

Heidi Priebe

[havingapoemwithyou]

Ars Poetica #100: I Believe by Elizabeth Alexander

[remanence-of-love]

[vogelpsittacines]

Illustration by Sophie Lucido Johnson

[ginkovskij]

happy crime and punishment month

[moonss-and-stars]

"Because in the right eyes, you will always be art."

[expatesque]

The Raincoat, Ada Limon

[nomorechoirs]

“The Thing Is” by Ellen Bass

[havingapoemwithyou]

For Janet, at the New Year by Ellen Bass

[wordsnpoetry]

i like to think that one day you will come back to me like forgetting a book you were reading and turning back to our chapter we never got to completing

aurora raine

[blackberryjambaby]

little crazy love song by mary oliver, from blue horses: poems

[in-the-gardens-of-babylon]

[midnightinshadow]

[awakeningofpsyche]

Life, Alarm Clock, Mirror by Mary Ruefle

[antiqueanimals]

"Freak Antlers of Whitetail"

Lives of Game Animals, Volume 3. 1927. Written and illustrated by Ernest Thompson Seton.

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