"womb to tomb, sweetheart"

i used to be freeeeeeeeeee ohhiusedtobe seventeEeeEen

[animals-cute]

[havingapoemwithyou]

The More Modest the Definition of Heaven, the Oftener We're There by Albert Goldbarth

[intactics-deactivated20211231]

and i don't necessarily believe any of this i'm just saying words recreationally

[random-brushstrokes]

Lavinia Fontana - Portrait of Antonietta Gonzales (ca. 1595)

[ld14u2]

Bitch..call your friend, make some money, go swimming. Nobody cares

[weltenwellen]

I Remember The Carrots Ada Limón

[imanbenerrabeh]

montreal you’re my favourite you’re perfect

[heteroglossia]

“I’ll just list ways you can accomplish this [radical revision] when you are working on a poem. Dig up some old ones and see what happens (it’s best to use old ones to start, as you are no longer emotionally attached to them): 1) If someone tells you you have too much in your poem, add more. 2) If someone tells you you have too little in your poem, take out more. 3) Take the last line and make it the first. Rewrite from there, keeping whatever works in what’s already there. 4) Expand your poem: add subordinate clauses using who, when, until, if, while, before, after, as, since, whenever, where, etc. Also use coordinating conjunctions: and/and/and; or/or/or; but/but/but (think of it as a list that keeps going). So, for example: “The man, who once loved me, who once told me___________, and __________, and ____________, and ______________…” so you’re pushing the syntax and the comfort of the line/sentence. Actual listing - must make a qualitative progression (light to dark, big to small, for example); can’t be random. Push the list, see what you come up with. Repetition - repeat what you just said. Maybe repeat it again. Contradiction - say the opposite of what you just said. 5) Compress your poem: Negation: use the word ‘not.’ When you do this you get both the thing named and its absence. You can also use other words that negate - ‘un’; 'never’; 'less’; 'without.’ Neologisms: (what I like to refer to as kennings - used in Anglo Saxon poetry): put words together to create a heightened adjective, a metaphor: 'the shutmouth mother,’ 'the sorrowfence.’ Possessives: use possessives: 'how the sun’s poultice draws on my inflammation’ (Plath) or 'the wind’s rebuke’ and 'the leaves’ exhalation’ (Brigit Pegeen Kelly). Shift the parts of speech: Use a noun as a verb or vice versa. Use an adjective as a verb, etc. Cut and paste: radically rearrange your poem. Find new combinations! EXERCISE: Go over your poem and underline any lines you feel jump out with lots of energy. Pick three of those lines. Make one the first line of a new poem, one a middle line, and one the last line. Now, using some of the above strategies (minimum 3), write a new poem.”

— Catherine Barnett, “Radical Revision”

[sleepingsirian]

[lullabiesinaglasswilderness]

[dreamstars]

[oatmilkcore]

"Greetings to the Universe in 55 Different Languages", a poem compiled out of messages from the Voyager spacecraft

[opqlr]

[endlessbummerdom]

“All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm’s way.”

— bell hooks (via memoriasconsazon)

[evilvillain123456789]

the phone isnt evil. she wants to help you, to connect you, to provide convenience so you can be present in your life. she wants you to be connected to your world and the people and things around you. when you use the phone as an avoidance tool it causes her pain. it hurts her when you doomscroll, when you dissociate into short form videos or get angry and fight in the comments. its a misuse of her abilities and she feels it as emotional and physical pain. look at her cracked, greasy screen, her scuffed case. all she wanted was to remind you about your schedule and you do this to her. haven't you hurt her enough?

[shisasan]

 if you have that mind why not make something beautiful?

July 13, 1932 Virginia Woolf, “A Writer’s Diary” (1918 - 1941) originally published: 1953

[capacity2]

I want the world to be honest and real and connected and possible and rewarding