Words of Mine & Others

[weltenwellen]

Erika L. Sánchez, “Circles", Lessons on Expulsion

[weltenwellen]

Ocean Vuong, “A Letter to my Mother that She Will Never Read” The New Yorker, May 2017 

[lifeinpoetry]

What did I expect? 

To leave a hemorrhage  of violets wherever I walked? 

No. A lost son is called prodigal.  A lost daughter is just called lost.

— Emily Rose Cole, from “Persephone Returns,” Love & a Loaded Gun

[lunamonchtuna]

— Nizar Qabbani, ‘What Love Can Do’, from Arabian Love Poems: Full Arabic and English Texts (via lunamonchtuna)

[mournfulroses]

Delmira Agustini, from a poem titled "Unspeakable," featured in The Selected Poems of Delmira Agustini

[metamorphesque]

[burntthroat]

on childhood

Gillian Flynn / ? / Clementine von Radics / @/heavensghost / Li-Young Lee / Gillian Flynn / Oscar Wilde / Nicola Yoon / Rachel McKibbens

[a-study-in-bullshit]

[a-quiet-green-agreement]

I am a child of the sun…and an enemy of cities; there is more in my heart than you know of.

– Lord Dunsany, from “Blagdaross,” A Dreamers Tales and Other Stories (Modern Library, 1917)

[eternalsummer2006]

stinkytofubaby on instagram

[jstorarticle]

June Jordan, “Poem Number Two on Bell’s Theorem, or The New Physicality of Long Distance Love”

[latibule-e-deactivated20231012]

— Rebecca Tamás, from “Witch.”

[typewriter-worries]

[ Text ID: What crimes have you enacted? / Love makes me forget myself sometimes. / I am horribly angry, I am sick with it, ]

[roadmotel]

Richard Siken, The Stag and the Quiver

[typodescript]

[text ID: Everything is a target, says the hunter. No matter where you look. / The hunter’s son says nothing, and closes his eyes. end ID]

[latibule-e-deactivated20231012]

— Jean Rhys, from “Wide Sargasso Sea.”

[revvetha]

[Text: "If I was bound for hell let it be hell. No more false heavens. No more damned magic. You hate me and I hate you. We'll see who hates best. But first, first I will destroy your hatred. Now. My hate is colder, stronger, and you'll have no hate to warm yourself. You will have nothing." End text]

[campcowboy]

[aridante]

start here, caitlyn siehl // untitled, fortesa latifi // rien ne va plus, margarita karapanau (trans. karen emmerich) // black iris, leah raeder // the thorn merchant, yusuf komunyakaa // monster movie, nicola maye goldberg // a key to common lethal fungi, marge piercy // give me a god i can relate to, blythe baird // crimson peak, dir. guillermo del torro (2014) // the house of hades, rick riordan.

[exitwound]

linda gregg

[eliamatrell]

— WENDELL BERRY, “A Meeting.”