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And this is how we cry, us girls:

hunkered over in the shower,

earthquake-shoulders,

nails digging crevices in our skin,

and still

and still, distant enough to think:

if i use the conditioner before i cry, it can sit in a little longer

#poetry #writing #spilled ink #poets on tumblr #words #poem #prose

angry-comics

story about a lake i did recently. text formatting is based on the CBC’s closed captioning style guide.

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wow wow very into this woman’s work

#art

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In the mix

#photography

dolphinbrains

to all the queer kids who are a little too in love with their best friend: i know. I know that half the time you don’t even know what you want from them, but to press a kiss to the corner of their lips when they smile or stroke their hair back from their face, and I know that the other half you don’t want things to change, you want to keep being best friends, staying up too late talking, sharing secrets in the early hours and doing stupid stuff you only get away with because you’re kids and because you’re together. I know you’re terrified that things are gonna change anyway, that they’ll meet someone or that you’ll grow apart. I know you sometimes feel guilty or that your love is unfair to them. it’s not, I promise, your love is pure and so, so beautiful. I know that sometimes they do something and hope blooms in your chest and you try your damn hardest to crush it and your feelings too. Don’t. it’s okay to hope, it’s okay to love them, and I know it hurts. but I promise they love you too, and that it is enough. and I don’t know if it’s gonna stop hurting or you’re gonna stop loving them someday. but one day you might meet someone else or you’ll kiss your best friend and it won’t be everything you hoped for or it’ll be everything you hoped for and more, I don’t know. but I promise: keep loving, it’s okay.

#prose #sapphic

inkskinned

i love fall but something about the end of summer always seems so bittersweet to me. like the lazy days we spent bored and sweating are now somehow dipped in amber, the swing of fireflies and song of cicadas bleeding into our memories somehow as if it was every night we spent with red solo cups and berry-stained lips, and only one beautiful moment too. like a strange ache that maybe you missed your chance, but also like you took the shot to be something unlike the tired quickness that you exist under for the rest of the year. it’s a slow version of yourself, and every summer tastes like that, like messy hair and maybe parties but also long hours but also quick friends and slow loves and dry mouths and wet lips and liquor and campfires and it all bundles into this odd pain that comes with losing green, that comes with the ending of a thing.

#writing #not mine

is this what they call codependent? <\i>

#friendship #spilled ink #poetry #words #poets on tumblr #for sarah #wheremonsterslive #prose poem #writing

inkskinned

i make myself a hallway of bad pictures; half the wall on fire - here’s where the scream met my throat, here’s where he failed to kiss me and i broke, here’s where i panicked, here is where i gave up on everything. somewhere else is the good things and i don’t touch them often because for some reason they make me ache. like i never really had it anyway. i have a forest i won’t touch for fear that i’ll poison it up. that one day i’ll come back and it will smell of the rest of me; blood, iron, burning skin. here is where she kissed me, isn’t it blooming brightly - but it hurts, doesn’t it, because she found it so easy to leave. i survive in the in between. a graveyard of things that were almost happy.

#prose poetry #not mine

my favourite emotion is the way you feel right after a big cry,, sort of mellow and relieved and like you can't really feel anything at that moment you're empty, but in a nice sort of way in a way that makes space for other emotions but you first need to just relax and let the tears dry on your face and not really think about anything

#prose