Refer to me as your Jupiter

HB

[metamorphesque]

a you-shaped hole in the universe Celia Paul, Ocean Vuong, Owen Gent, Alejandra Pizarnik (trans. Yvette Siegert), Karman Verdi, Edna St Vincent Millay

[wetheurban]

Detachment is power. Acceptance is power. Clarity is power.

[wetheurban]

[konoko]

[bbbbbbautista]

So empty

[ur-daily-inspiration]

[mango-season]

Trista Mateer, "Baggage", from Honeybee

[lifeinpoetry]

Honestly, between your death and me, it doesn’t matter or I don’t know or I wasn’t looking or I couldn’t see because I’ve made a home out of how much I miss you and there’s no one here to tell me I should leave.

— Saeed Jones, from "Saeed, How Dare You Make Your Mother into a Prelude," Alive at the End of the World

[loveisdamnation]

waterborn, natasha trethewey | nietzsche | archbudzar on instagram | a great hope fell, emilio dickinson | the third hour of the night, frank bidart

[metamorphesque]

— Maggie Nelson, Bluets

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

[cavernrabbit]

In the winter I don’t have a body so when the spring comes it’s hard but then by summer I say okay fine I have a body and I throw it into water and feel better

[metaphrasis]

“That’s what winter is: an exercise in remembering how to still yourself then how to come pliantly back to life again. An exercise in adapting yourself to whatever frozen or molten state it brings you.”

— Ali Smith, Winter

[luthienne]

...no words could be bitter enough, no day could be long enough. There is just no end to it. Disappointment. I eat and drink it. I wake and sleep it.

Marilynne Robinson, from Gilead

[theoptia]

Jean-Paul Sartre, from No Exit and Three Other Plays; “The Flies”

Text ID: But I—What am I but an empty shell? Some creature has devoured me, gnawed out my inner self.

[neuroticmind]

[imjust-a-girl]