breathe the sun; talk to stars

katy bird. she/her. infj aquarius sun. writer, artist. nocturnal. book loading at 90%.

[mangoandsnow]

Those empty tides

Swallowed by terrors at night

Wane dark and hollow in her eyes

They pulled at her only hours before

But feel as if they had always been there

Met among the noise of a quiet day

She was voiceless

Or jumbled her words until

Soundless sounded sublime

Sound stuck in her throat

Blocking air, wind, words, sanity

Sanity sounded sensual

A brief glance of hands, fingers, looks, smiles

Simple

When the sound caught in her throat,

All things simple became complex

A scream hovered on her tongue

Never reaching past her teeth to lips or ears

Only echoing in bones that held the tide

That threatened to crush her ribcage

Suffocate any thought, taste, smile, laugh

Stole her away from her body

Detached and waiting for the sun to bring her back

Even as it did, a piece was left behind

As a sweet echo

Waiting for the door to open

For her to be found again

[skyschai-deactivated20160228]

[closure]

[neckkiss]

Annie Hall (1977)

[newblogisjacindaelena]

[thatonenewdungeonmaster]

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

“How do you know someone is for you? They bring a peace you haven’t found anywhere. They support your efforts. They water your growth.”

— Malaride Jean-claude

[stargazerinaboat]

“She has filled the tower with books, and a huge old cat, and she may practice alchemy there, for all anyone knows.”

— Shirley Jackson, excerpt of “A Visit”, in The Folio Book of Ghost Stories (via antigonick)

[theliteraryarchitect]

Love love love Shirley Jackson

[theliteraryarchitect]

“Blessed are the people who, while writing, manage to cradle all the senses, shake us to the core and melt to the poles with their charm.”

— poetry-siir © (via poetry-siir)

[quotemadness]

“I wish I had a someone who would observe me silently, who would capture all my habits and quirks, and still love me. Someone that would get lost in how my fine features define my face, while smiling or crying, and still love me.”

— Elay Neal Moses

[demonius-darkblade]

People like to point to the loss of library of Alexandria or the plague or whatever as some huge dip in an impossible graph of human progress, but i doubt either compares to the effect of so many centuries of the catholic church spreading the idea that you'll get tortured in hell for eternity if you try to learn stuff.

[quotemadness]

“Don’t sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea.”

— Rumi

[you-deserve-to-love-yourself]

No matter how broken you think you are, you deserve to heal.

[1010ll]

[strwberree]

[synqra]

People gathered around lava, Iceland.

[stolespring]