Azia Archer

the room is on fire as she's fixing her hair

[i-was-made-for-another-planet]

“Dearest,

I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can’t go through another of those terrible times. And I shan’t recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can’t concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don’t think two people could have been happier ‘til this terrible disease came. I can’t fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can’t even write this properly. I can’t read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that — everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can’t go on spoiling your life any longer.

I don’t think two people could have been happier than we have been.”

March 28, 1941 - Virginia Woolf’s suicide letter.

[mournfulroses]

Ernest Hemingway, from "Garden of Eden," originally published in 1986

[afarewelltoarmsandpoems]

Farewell self-inflicted wounds

wounded fragments

wounded sleep

I, myself with open eyes

rising

a Strega in the Lord

—

Source text: Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell To Arms. New York: Scribner, 1929. Print. Pg 11.

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Follow along during the month of April as I post erasure poems from Hemmingway’s “A Farewell to Arms” 🤍

[aseaofquotes]

Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

[blurays]

The Royal Tenenbaums 2001, dir. Wes Anderson

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like old friends, fall & winter meet again, hold one another close, this is "hello"

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this is the blooming

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"The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms." --Angelus Silesius

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October Gold

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I. Who is Christ? Angel mother father man A light the Lord? It's possible. I must learn Others know, but what they know they often forget given to dreaming asleep afraid-- as a woman I will know only by the shape of its absence. Source text: Rice, Anne. Christ The Lord: The Road to Cana: A Novel. New York: Random House, 2008. Print.

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i can't get enough of the sky

[hardfeelingslove]

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I've got some copies of my chapbook! If you'd like a one, shoot me a DM! ($8 sent via PayPal & I'll get it mailed out to you ASAP with a pretty love note 🤗) ✨🌙🔮

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Moon Goddess by Azia Archer

I am so much flesh and bones and fat, enveloping a deep purple soul. Let me dance naked for you under the glass stars. I’ll show you the wavelengths between my swinging breasts. See how this flesh is so much more than quaking Earth on your bedsheets? See this body of mine next to this body yours, euphoria for blood, for veins? Feel this flesh, how it’s wet and warm and waiting for you. We can push back and forth in these magnetic multitudes. Here! Come swim in this pool of mine. Come to me, let me show you the rapture.

Azia Archer is the author of “Atoms & Evers” (dancing girl press, 2017). You can find her online via Twitter @aziaarcher

If you’d like to tip Azia Archer and Bottlecap Press 50/50, follow this link:  [email protected]

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“Hope is the thing with feathers -That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words - And never stops at all.” -Emily Dickinson

[threemoonsareshining]

“I have a beauty waiting for me back in Winterfell.”

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on the prowl #meow