[convergingtimelines]

“I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

[chandajaan]

Being 27 is so confusing cus yes i am 27 but im also 22 and 19 and 16 and 12 and 8 like a weird little babushka doll, like i didn't turn into older me i just grew over little baby me.

[havingapoemwithyou]

Beach by Stanley Plumly

[petaltexturedskies]

Boris Pasternak, in a letter to Marina Tsvetaeva, from Letters, Summer 1926

[havingapoemwithyou]

After twelve days of rain by Dorianne Laux

[soracities]

Charles Wright, from "A Journal of Southern Rivers", The World of Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990 [ID'd]

[mynowherenothing]

[petaltexturedskies]

Today was one of the most beautiful days of the summer. We all watched the glorious sunset, twilight—half shadows, half lights. I will remember this day for a long, long time, for the dreams I dreamed in the swing, watching on one side my dear little house with its lit-up windows in the darkness, on the other the woods, with the beautiful sky for a roof. And beyond that, life, life. Tonight my heart overflows.

Anaïs Nin in a diary entry dated 3 August 1920, from The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin: 1920-1923

[theoptia]

Simone de Beauvoir, from Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 1, 1926-1927; August 1st, 1926

Text ID: Courage, be everything to yourself. Seek your truth; construct your life, a beautiful life; be strong and passionately cherish yourself to console yourself for being so alone in the midst of all those who love you.

[allloversbetray]

Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson // Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn // Musica Humana by Ilya Kaminsky // Basic August by Eileen Myles // Imitations of Drowning by Anne Sexton // Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? by Raymond Carver // The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner // Atmospheric Embroidery by Meena Alexander // The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath // The Women by Kim Addonizio // 

[noleavestoblow]

"It is easier to demand happiness than to clean up the environment. The acceptance of illusion and appearance as reality is another symptom of this same refusal to examine the realities of our lives. Let us seek ‘joy’ rather than real food and clean air and a saner future on a liveable earth! As if happiness alone can protect us from the results of profit-madness."

-Audre Lorde, "The Cancer Journal"

[havingapoemwithyou]

I Have A Postcard Mouth by Trista Mateer

[havingapoemwithyou]

Haunts by Danusha Laméris

[ordocarmelitarum]

Infirmary of the Carmel at Lisieux where Thérèse died on 30 September 1897

[geopsych]

Take a deep breath and watch the mist roll over the lake with crickets and an oriole, a frog and one or two other things doing commentary

August 2022

[seriouswapanese]

[miamaimania]

Frozen in Time: Christophe Jacrot’s Norilsk, Siberia