âAnd she carves her hips into mine like sheâs Michelangelo and Iâm something holy.â
â Alex Thomas, âAnatomy of a Hook-upâ Â

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âAnd she carves her hips into mine like sheâs Michelangelo and Iâm something holy.â
â Alex Thomas, âAnatomy of a Hook-upâ Â
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âI am sorry someone loved you badly, and that they made you feel like you take up more space than you deserve. I am sorry they abandoned you when you need them the most and it has made you believe that love is an awful thing that hurts.â
â Nikita Gill | @thelovejournals (via thelovejournals)
The universe is indifferent. We ought not to be.
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Get to writing! Submissions for issue 5 are opening on April 25th!
Iâm not sad. Iâm exhausted, and thereâs a big difference. My heart doesnât ache, and my breath doesnât collapse my chest. My brain is foggy, my words stick together like tar when the sun is high. My bones are heavy with the words I canât say. I feel like a shell. Empty but still somehow very heavy.
small parts of my life (#5)
you are a boy who falls in love and the world is on fire when he touches you with sunburned skin and whispers your name into the wind into the sun and you realize falling is an awful lot like f l y i n g
- excerpt of Lessons on loving the sun, published in Sunblind | r.m
how to love a mortal: i. stay away from him. gods do not love. you are a god. do not love something that will someday die. ii. small-boned, soft-hearted, voice smooth as stones. when he breaks his ankle you think to yourself: oh, how easily the world wounds him. oh, how easily he bleeds. iii. he kisses you first. he is thirteen and human and he will someday die. do not kiss him back. iv. you say: mother, can a god love a boy? thetis sharpens her teeth. she says: well, what good has love ever done? v. you were born a weapon but you kiss him anyway. you kiss him because he is beautiful and temporary and you do not yet understand what it means to kill. vi. making love to him feels like being remade, doesnât it? here, the knife in his mouth. here, the starlight in his eyes. here, his sweat on your tongue like salt of the river Styx. vii. in this dream, you kill Agamemnon. in this dream, there is no war. in this dream, he lives forever. viii. he puts your clothes on and you forget he is mortal. he puts your clothes on and he forgets it, too. ix. when the world burned, your mother whispered: you knew, didnât you? i told you not to love something that will someday die. x. you do not say: i knew, but i was selfish. i am a god. it is my nature.
Natalie Wee // Achilles Dreaming
(Patroclus Dreaming)
She wanted to bottle how safe she felt in this moment, so she could drink of it later when loneliness and fear left her parched.
Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale (via simply-quotes)
âReach Me Realityâ 1/12/16
I feel like my college experience has been various shades of blue. A midnight blue that tastes like the air on those clear nights filled with a sort of peace that you'll never get back, like the past stuck in a little crevice that you'll never be able to reach, like the color of lost dreams. A deep dark indigo, like the bottom of the sea, the sadness that crashes over you in endless waves, knocking you down just as you get up, like the very bottom of the ocean when you finally let go, when it all washes over you, like the deepest chasm in your soul, like the gaping hole in your chest, like water filling your lungs, the color of the night sky reflected in the tears that wash the day away. A pastel baby blue, like the color of the sky on a clear day after the rain has washed the clouds away, like peace and quiet before the storm, like early mornings and feeling light and so far away from everything, the color of the joy bubbling in your heart, like your soul coming back to life as you run across an old bridge across the pond feeling like it all might be okay. And a dull ambiguous mix of blue and grey, like the color of the paint I once mixed when I tried to make grey look a little more inviting, like the night sky as the clouds roll in, the stars obscured, clarity fading, the storm rolling in, like nothingness, like nothingness, like the smoke in the bonfire pit mixed with the salty air of the ocean fading into a distant memory, like the color of the foggy sky smeared across a dusty windshield, and it's all a blur.
Submissions for Persephone's Daughters Issue Two Now Open!
As a holiday treat for all you writers and artists, submissions for Issue Two of Persephoneâs Daughters are now open! You have until December 25th to submit your work.
After learning my flight was detained 4 hours, I heard the announcement: If anyone in the vicinity of gate 4-A understands any Arabic, Please come to the gate immediately. Wellâone pauses these days. Gate 4-A was my own gate. I went there. An older woman in full traditional Palestinian dress, Just like my grandma wore, was crumpled to the floor, wailing loudly. Help, said the flight service person. Talk to her. What is her Problem? we told her the flight was going to be four hours late and she Did this. I put my arm around her and spoke to her haltingly. Shu dow-a, shu- biduck habibti, stani stani schway, min fadlick, Sho bit se-wee? The minute she heard any words she knewâhowever poorly usedâ She stopped crying. She thought our flight had been canceled entirely. She needed to be in El Paso for some major medical treatment the Following day. I said no, no, weâre fine, youâll get there, just late, Who is picking you up? Letâs call him and tell him. We called her son and I spoke with him in English. I told him I would stay with his mother till we got on the plane and Would ride next to herâSouthwest. She talked to him. Then we called her other sons just for the fun of it. Then we called my dad and he and she spoke for a while in Arabic and Found out of course they had ten shared friends. Then I thought just for the heck of it why not call some Palestinian Poets I know and let them chat with her. This all took up about 2 hours. She was laughing a lot by then. Telling about her life. Answering Questions. She had pulled a sack of homemade mamool cookiesâlittle powdered Sugar crumbly mounds stuffed with dates and nutsâout of her bagâ And was offering them to all the women at the gate. To my amazement, not a single woman declined one. It was like a Sacrament. The traveler from Argentina, the traveler from California, The lovely woman from Laredoâwe were all covered with the same Powdered sugar. And smiling. There are no better cookies. And then the airline broke out the free beverages from huge coolersâ Non-alcoholicâand the two little girls for our flight, one African American, one Mexican Americanâran around serving us all apple juice And lemonade and they were covered with powdered sugar too. And I noticed my new best friendâby now we were holding handsâ Had a potted plant poking out of her bag, some medicinal thing, With green furry leaves. Such an old country traveling tradition. Always Carry a plant. Always stay rooted to somewhere. And I looked around that gate of late and weary ones and thought, This is the world I want to live in. The shared world. Not a single person in this gateâonce the crying of confusion stopped âhas seemed apprehensive about any other person. They took the cookies. I wanted to hug all those other women too. This can still happen anywhere. Not everything is lost.
Naomi Shihab Nye (b. 1952), âWandering Around an Albuquerque Airport Terminal.â I think this poem may be making the rounds, this week, but thatâs as it should be. (via oliviacirce)
When I lose hope in the world, I remember this poem.
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Itâs been a hard day and a hard night and a hard week and a hard life. Hereâs something to brighten it up.
(via bee-a-ts)
i am afraid that if i open myself i will not stop pouring. (why do i fear becoming a river. what mountain gave me such shame.)
Erosion // Jamie Oliveira  (via yidan)
An army of shadows came knocking at my door asking me to strap on my armor and head into battle. I streaked blood under my eyes and called it war paint and hid my stuffed animals under the bed. Iâd be back soon with stories of triumph and bravery. The kind of stories that little girls stay up late to read under their blankets with a flashlight. I would return with steady hands and unchewed finger nails, with lips that no longer bled from the relentlessness of the wind. When the army of shadows came knocking at my door I locked myself in and threw away the key. How do I tell the army of shadows that my hazelnut coffee no longer tastes sweet? My hands are shaking and itâs not from the caffeine but from running my fingers over the jagged edges of my skin. How do I tell them that I have to remind myself to breathe and to get myself out of bed every morning? The army of shadows needs courage and valor not half eaten dinners and dirty laundry. How do I tell them I am fighting the battle? How do I tell them I am losing the war?
Army of shadows | Kimberly Siehl (via hangingwallflower)
Nobody I know is a god. A mother and son fall into the riverâs million hands, the riverâs smash and grab. They go under, climb the ropeless water up, wave, open their mouths and scream wet silences as they slide back under. A man jumps in to save them, leaves the edge as a needle into the riverâs muddy sinews, a woman jumps in to save his vanishing and the mother and son and is stripped by the flood, her pants drowning right beside her, another man jumps in to save them all and a woman jumps in after him to save them all plus one, cars arrive and people get out and leap into the river, the riverâs being filled with whateverâs in their pockets and their hands and their eyes, with nickels and dollar bills and bibles and sunsets, the beautiful brush strokes of this beautifully dying day, people pile like a river inside the river, they keep coming and diving in, they keep feeding their breath to the water, which is less, which is thinned, until the mother and son rise on a mound of strangers and dead, the sun warming them, blessing their faces slowly dry.
Bob Hicok, âFor Three Whose Reflex Was Yesâ (via notebookings)
It is her hand In his he thinks of now. Her hands. Not their tenderness, But how one year they wove The viny bittersweet into wreaths, Which she gave away as gifts. When they finished their work, he brought her hands, Cut and scraped, to his mouth and kissed them. He put her cupped hands over his face And breathed deep the air held within them.
Eric Pankey, closing lines to âNightshade,â Apocrypha: Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 1991)