i am eager for stars.

I've not learned / the acceptable way of saying / you fascinate me

[wnq-writers]

But the saddest thing in life isn’t the love you’d never have; it is the love you could never explain.

juansendizon (via wnq-writers)

[bitesizedpoetry]

Sylvia Plath, "I Am Vertical"

[geryone]

Spells of My Name, I.S. Jones

[geryone]

Overland, Natalie Eilbert

[geryone]

Kitchen, Banana Yoshimoto

[theperfumemaker]

“Ask her how he touched her. His gaze touched me before his hands touched me. Ask her how he touched her. I didn’t ask for anything; everything was given. Ask her what she remembers. We were hauled into the underworld.”

— Louise Glück, The Burning Heart

[wovi]

*

jennifer willoughby, the sun is still a part of me

[soracities]

“your face is the bright lure I look for, love’s hook piercing me, hauling me cleanly up.”

— Kim Addonizio, from ‘Mermaid Song’, Wild Nights: New and Selected Poems

[metamorphesque]

We Have Not Long To Love, Tennessee Williams

[goreprofonde]

- Tory Adkisson, Anecdote of the Pig.

[araekni]

[ID: An excerpt from a poem. It reads:

Do you still believe myths can save you? Foolish creature. Let me be clear: every version of the story ends with you being slaughtered.

End ID.]

[geryone]

Lonely Women Make Good Lovers, Keetje Kuipers

[geryone]

Lonely Women Make Good Lovers, Keetje Kuipers

[geryone]

Lonely Women Make Good Lovers, Keetje Kuipers

[geryone]

Swan Feast, Natalie Eilbert

[geryone]

From From, Monica Youn

[othellho]

Temporary Vows, Caroline Bird

[geryone]

Waiting for My Clothes, Leanne O'Sullivan