calypso

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[strange-nymph]

blackout poem ‘renee’

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[weltenwellen]

Joy Sullivan, “Blue", Instructions for Traveling West

[typewriter-worries]

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I've taken every man I've loved out for oysters especially if he's never tried them.

It's hard to explain how eating oysters isn't so much about taste but about the memory of ocean and brine, wet crag and sputter-foam.

How you lift the shell and slurp wave, sargassum, primordial star. Suddenly, the ancient rush of dune and tide. Lungs full of froth.

How you quiver like a drowned god and swallow that gulp of sea, creature made of salt and time and I am asking to be loved like that-with a taste so blue it breaks. ]

[apocryphics]

from Virginia Woolf's diaries, February 27th, 1926

[ashstfu]

warsan shire

[candiedspit]

First poem of the year!!

[wovi]

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sandra cisneros

[chillpotato]

Mieko Kawakami, from 'Heaven'

[thenervebible]

kathy acker (1971-1975) unpublished early writings

[paper-wounds]

[petaltexturedskies]

Sylvia Plath, in a diary entry dated 15 June 1951, from The Unabridged Journals

[nixscriptum]

[heavensghost]

House zine! Words from anything by adrianne lenker

[bitesizedpoetry]

Sylvia Plath, aged 19, journal entry #124, from "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath" (dated May 15, 1952)

[loveridden1999]

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Sensible Thing

[pmamtraveller]

hearts in trees

[dragme2heaven]

made a tooth stamp out of an eraser

[strange-nymph]

balancing

thrilling, willing, obsessing, feeling, crying, thinking, fucking, and of course, loving. obedience and listening. singing, talking, moaning, recollecting, reimagining, and of course, never loving. texting, drinking, driving, smoking, touching, showering, kissing, waiting, twisting and flushing. distracting and desiring. opening, throbbing. braining, hearting, souling, analysing. licking. pressing. pushing and pulling. training. ebbing and waning. bear-hugging, making, cocktail bartending. stretching and spanking, sedating, and of course, never loving. only ever loving. leaving, swinging, finding, meaning. swimming, eating, dating, cooking, waitressing. loving, flowing, glowing. trembling. writing. no loving. balancing. and of course, loving.