tenderness;

madeline. xix. she/her. all art is quite useless

[aridante]

dogfish, mary oliver // the torn-up road, richard siken // heart of darkness, joseph conrad // two or three things i know for sure, dorothy allison // because there are graveyards, adira bennett // a little life, hanya yanagihara.

[awsugar]

i hope this email finds you sprawled on these cathedral steps while spitting out the blood and screaming someone save us

[weltenwellen]

Rainer Maria Rilke, tr. by A. Poulin Jr., Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus

[weltenwellen]

Leah Umansky, from “Woman Carrying Everything”

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

D. H. Lawrence, from The Complete Works; “The Ladybird,” publ. c. 1922

[bostonpoetryslam]

Jessica has a forehead scar from the deep end of a pool. I ask Jessica what drowning feels like and she says not everything feels like something else.

Angie Sijun Lou, “Jessica gives me a chill pill,” published in Muzzle (via bostonpoetryslam)

[declanrights]

the kings men, nora sakavic / virginia woolf to vita sackville-west, 1928 / saw you in a dream, the japanese house / work song, hozier / mad girl’s love song, sylvia plath / blue lily lily blue, maggie stiefvater

[mjalti]

Heart Berries — terese marie mailhot

[oumaimas]

The Author Writes the First Draft of His Wedding Vows, Hanif Willis Abduraqqib (transcript under the cut)

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[javert-jajaune-jarouge]

“i. boy with gunsmoke for breath. boy with rebellion in your bones. ii. your city is ignited. your city is screaming your name. your city is raising its fist, your city is slamming its body against a police shield and smiling a red, bloody smile. iii. your voice is the loudest shout at the head of the picket line. your voice is all war and they love you for it. your voice is breaking, but it is holy. iv. you are a god and they will follow you anywhere. you are apollo and you have traded your silver bow for a shotgun and a mean right hook. v. boy who screams anarchy from the roofs of police cars. boy born for revolution. boy, the world is yours. all you have to do is burn.”

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révolutionnaire | m.c.p (via camillamacaulay)

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[ivyburied]

[urparty]

400 lux, lorde / post about grammar and dialogue, tumblr user vicisse / viking #2, ao3 user neurosis / little beast, richard siken / paper rings, taylor swift / like or like like, miniature tigers / s5e14, parks and recreation

[heartmagician]

[eliamatrell]

— ZBIGNIEW HERBERT, translated by Czesław Miłosz and Peter Dale Scott.

[standardlovers]

you know what hits me about the "on purpose on purpose im going to love you on purpose" "i'll take care of you, it's rotten work, not to me not if it's you" "im going to love you without a single string attached" "i don't know where to put it all the love i have for her, i'll take it" "i walked in love with you with both eyes open choosing to take every step"?

they all have the same desire, they all desire for someone to Want it, for love to not be an accident or something that happens without recognising it, they all have the overtones desire of wanting someone to deem you worthy of love, to see you and meet you and know you and Want to love you, to make that choice and stick by it because loving you or being loved by you is something so deeply worth it and fulfilling and moving and powerful that they Want it, in their soul they crave to love and be loved

they're such varieties of the basic desire to be wanted

they say these things and they mean "love me because i am lovable" not "love me because you find me desirable/you have realised you already do/you want something from me" etc

it's "love me because i am me and you are aware of that" and it's something you can just scream to someone when you can't find another way to say "i am choosing to love you because loving you is something i want to experience no matter the outcome"

love them . On purpose, on Purpose and by choice and intentionally you will Love Them

[anthropologyofwater-deactivated]

thinking a lot about this lately

[januaryhoney]

when mary oliver said “so this is the world. i’m not in it. it is beautiful” and “i wanted to know, whoever i was, i was alive for a little while” and “mostly, i want to be kind” and “i want to say all my life i was a bride married to amazement” and “you only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves” and “someday we’ll live in the sky” and “i want to love this world as thought it’s the last chance I’m ever going to get to be alive” and “have you too finally figured out what beauty is for? and have you changed your life?”