A How To For Addictions.

This is my place of solitude. A place where my mind can wander off and lose itself.

[mournfulroses]

Ernest Hemingway, from a letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald featured in The Selected Letters of Ernest Hemingway

[dangerousperfectionparadise]

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[kaytpoems]

the sun knows my name

hot breath to the nape of

my neck. she is a whispering

hope. the promise of tan lines.

the gasp of summer. a future

wrapped up in sweat.

~K.T.

[underthegaslight]

[bhloomest]

[newloverofbeauty]

Bather, Camera work by David Hockney  (1984)

[kosmogrl]

[cygnum]

[ahowtoforaddictions]

[feral-ballad]

Kim Addonizio, from Wild Nights: New & Selected Poems; “Candy Heart Valentine”

[ahowtoforaddictions]

I witnessed fireworks

On ancient lands

Holding wonders

So vast

They planted seeds

Of satiated merriment

Deep, within

As streams of light

pierced the fading skies

I sat

In awe

& wept.

Tears of absolute bliss.

No matter where I roam

Love finds a way

To seep into my bones

When I am hollow

To fill me

—with effervescent joy.

[somewordsarebiggerthanothers]

[ahowtoforaddictions]

[julytrees]

Donna Summer photographed by Fin Costello from a photoshoot in 1976.

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Blood, 2000 by Anish Kapoor

[mournfulroses]

Friedrich Nietzsche, from a letter to Hermann Mushacke featured in The Unpublished Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche