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New Website
All future work will be posted to my new website: virginiaophals.com. Check it out, read a poem, laugh, cry, heat up a frozen burrito, live your life.
Of course, I'm always contactable via email at virginiaophals (at) gmail (dot) com.
P.s.- I'll be leaving up this old Tumblr for posterity.
I have eaten the pizza that was in the fridge and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me it was just there so dope and so bomb
William Carlos Williams, "This Is Just To Say" (original)
Musical Prescription: In The Middle by Lily & Madeleine
For the lazy, here is that stunning song. Thank her for your dose this rainy morning.
My x-rays from April, when I had mono. I've never had non-dental x-rays before, and when I opened these for the first time today, I gasped. It's all in there. I've discussed my fears of the inside my body previously, but that does not diminish my curiosity for it, and this perspective is satisfyingly cold, colorless, and clean. Ethereal, even. I don't think I've ever loved two pictures of me more.
Suddenly this defeat. This rain. The blues gone gray And the browns gone gray And yellow A terrible amber. In the cold streets Your warm body. In whatever room Your warm body. Among all the people Your absence The people who are always Not you.
Jack Gilbert, "Rain" (via words-in-lines)
“If ever there were an occasion for bold revisions of reality, surely the art of airline crisis is it.”
The art of airline safety cards.
Hey Virginia, its eric, I remember I wrote you on this before and I don't know how else to contact you, how are you?
Send me your number; this isn't civilized.
Naming
Spit from pink and thickly glazed, we, first, are named. What, then, of the naming of the world? In the beginning, perhaps we played parents— cradling this thing, as if seeing it for the first time, our eyes gone soft, cooing “Rock” as we raise it up to the sun. Or perhaps the names found us— a man hurls one at another man’s head, the first murder over the stolen carcass of a felled mammal, and tearful witnesses grope to shout the crime into the open world, the name “Rock” bursting out, instinctual: the tough, blunt K like the sound of stone against bone. There is a rock, and there is a rock covered in the blood of another, just as there is the name John, and then there is John after you have loved one. That static sound of the J like ocean surf, or an untuned radio. You have named him, again, but freshly. But the world was not born to us— we were born to it, and if you lie in the grass, your ear to the ground, you can hear the world whisper the name it gave us long ago, back when we were born, back when the first man stood in the woods to carve into the bark.
And in the desert cold men invented the star.
Franz Wright, “The Forties”
"Fist City" (Loretta Lynn cover) by Best Coast In case you haven't taken a shower with me this week, I do a pretty sassy rendition of this. Try it.
Cartography
A map of the United States above my bed. Subway map open on my computer. In me, a map of ice, where to walk without slipping through. An experiential map, like all maps. Map of the grocery store, stars over my favorite foods. Woman asks me where the pasta is and I tell her to head north, to bring a lantern. Map of physical pain, like the Tylenol ads on television. Where it hurts, how much. Glowing red dots as if on radar. The enemy, we think. Map of the acceptable public bathrooms in Manhattan. (Carried with me always.) Map of places where everything I own was made. Map of places where I have kissed, the index on the back just pictures of mouths. Map of all the air molecules I have ever breathed, and then one of everyone who has breathed them too. Map of where rivers used to be before dams were built. Map of favorite colors by country. Map of places where it has never snowed. Map of things in my room you have touched. Map of places my mom has told me she loves me. I run my fingers over this one, a raised-relief map, they call it, like the kind on which you can feel the tough shoulder of the Himalayas, the curved spine of the Mid-Atlantic ridge. Map of everything I have dropped and never missed. Map of wild animals that have seen me and not immediately run. Map of restaurants from which I have not taken leftovers. (Few.) Map of places I have accidentally fallen asleep. Map of places to which I’ve dreamt I’ve been. (Most speculative, unmappable.) Map of pianos that have only ever been played by children. Map of hometowns to which people, more often than not, return. Map of lost laundromat socks, attached: a series of love letters written by them to their owners, asking for forgiveness. Map of places on my wall where I have thrown spaghetti and it has not stuck. Map of the sun, all the best flares named. Map of a spread rumor, postmortem. Map of constellations if I were in charge of creating them: the Broken-In Boot, the Meatball Sub, Jeff Buckley. Map of airplane crash sites with only one survivor. Map of parts of the body one is, statistically, most likely to learn to love. Map of my body, according to you.
Blood, Phobias, and My Mind-Body Problem
I got blood drawn the other day. Let’s talk about it.
Real Questions I've Asked Myself in the Past 10 Minutes:
1. How do you spell ron-day-voo? I know there are a Z and some other dark horses in there. 2. Do I want to get ready to go out yet or do I want to reread and overanalyze this IM conversation I had with W. for the fourth time? 3. What does it say that I wear all my lame underwear first, habitually saving the sexy ones for when they're necessary, but they of fucking course never become necessary, so laundry day basically leaves me wearing fucking lingerie? 4. I can't have both of those 'fucking's in #3 so which one do I really need? 5. Fuckings? Fuckings.
"Someone Out of Town" by Yuna For those times when you wake up from nightmare after nightmare, your heart racing, only then to cry while surfing OKCupid, of all things.
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who are you,little i (five or six years old) peering from some high window;at the gold of November sunset (and feeling:that if day has to become night this is a beautiful way)
E. E. Cummings, "who are you, little i"
What if the heart does not pale as the body wanes, but is like the sun that blazes hotter each day on these immense, perishing fields? What then?
Jack Gilbert, from "Getting Ready"
