Nola Darling

"Where there is a woman there is magic. If there is a moon falling from her mouth, she is a woman who knows her magic, who can share or not share her powers. A woman with a moon falling from her mouth, roses between her legs and tiaras of Spanish moss, this woman is a consort of the spirits."

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Tennessee Williams, from “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” in The Collected Plays

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I’ll stay in Today by Chukwu Adaeze

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Naomi Native depicted as Oshun, Yoruba goddess of love, beauty, and fertility

Created by A.J. Hamilton

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Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head, Warsan Shire

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[Text ID: I’ll rewrite this whole life and this time there’ll be so much love, you won’t be able to see beyond it. /End ID.]

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Margaret Atwood, from "Roominghouse, Winter", Selected Poems: 1965-1975

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― E.M. Forster, Howards End

[text ID: The house was very quiet, and the fog—we are in November now—pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost.]

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Mariah Carey (1997)

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— Mary Oliver, The Pond

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Mary Oliver, from “Invitation.”

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The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1944–1947

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— Clementine Von Radics, from Courtney Love Prays to Oregon (via lunamonchtuna)

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Helen Oyeyemi, from “White Is for Witching”    

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Do you have cashier experience?

Me:

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“I could say surrender until it sounds like a song or salve. I could hold your love in my mouth and make pearls of it.”

— C. T. Salazar, from “You Called Me Castaway and I Called You,” micro collection This Might Have Meant Fire: Poems, INCH quarterly (no.39, Summer 2019)