I Could Swallow the Sky Whole

MTK | 28 | She/Her

[mournfulroses]

Ya Xian, from a poem titled "Andante Cantabile," featured in A century of modern Chinese poetry : an anthology

[inkpressedpetals]

[paper-wounds]

[gothredy]

[dk-thrive]

“I’m always rummaging around for things that aren’t there. Small things.”

— Selma Blair, “Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up” (Knopf, May 17, 2022) 

[oozins]

NOT EVERYTHING FEELS LIKE SOMETHING ELSE

[drowsyspace]

[petaltexturedskies]

Anne Sexton, from "The Fury of Sundays" in The Complete Poems

[hel7l7]

it keeps coming back

[undinesea]

Those devouring suns in the soul.

Hélène Picard, “The Witch and Monsieur Combiendefois,” from Sabbat, translation by Brian Stableford

[sharpenededgess]

[deseos-de-la-via-lactea]

By Jethro Buck

[chillpotato]

- Martha Gellhorn, from the "Selected letters od Martha Gellhorn"

[petaltexturedskies]

The summer night glowed; in the field fireflies were glinting. And for those who understood such things, the stars were sending messages.

Louise Glück, from "Midsummer" in Poems 1962-2012

[mothprincess]

Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals

[inkpressedpetals]

[laterkiss]

i have [gestures vaguely] my tendencies