i would not think to touch the sky with two arms

[25] [lesbian] [tell me about despair, yours, and i will tell you mine]

[sunkissedstanzas]

francis forever, mitski // x, costar // i’ll be your mirror, the velvet underground // episode 159: the last, the magnus archives // spines, jamie killen // i see you, mika // the magician’s apprentice, doctor who

[solarpowerlesbian]

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[sunkissedstanzas]

 pink in the night, mitski // i had a dream about you, richard siken // aristotle & dante discover the secrets of the universe, benjamin alire sáenz

[calicostorms]

[IMAGE ID: Three screenshots of text, as follows below.

1. And I know I’ve kissed you before, but

I can’t do it right

Can I try again, try again, try again

And again, and again, and again

2. I said kiss me here and here and here

and you did

3. “Try it again,” I said. “Kiss me.”

“No,” he said.

“Kiss me.”

“No.” And then he smiled. “You kiss me.”

I placed my hand on the back of his neck. I pulled him toward me. And kissed him. I kissed him. And I kissed him. And I kissed him. And I kissed him. And he kept kissing me back. /END IMAGE ID]

[violentcherries]

all i need

2020

[exitwound]

ada limón, the conditional

[wolfer-aid]

anglerfish 

[weltenwellen]

Simone Weil, tr. by Richard Rees, First and Last Notebooks

[apoemaday]

Two-Headed Calf

by Laura Gilpin

Tomorrow when the farm boys find this freak of nature, they will wrap his body in newspaper and carry him to the museum.

But tonight he is alive and in the north field with his mother. It is a perfect summer evening: the moon rising over the orchard, the wind in the grass. And as he stares into the sky, there are twice as many stars as usual.

[megairea]

E.E. Cummings, from “i carry your heart”; Collected Poems: 1904-1962

[munadyke]

heres a bad scan of an attempt at lyric journal art!

[celexial]

— Mary Oliver

illustration by jordan.e.clark

[wishbzne-deactivated20210526]

“to be half asleep with love”

— Sappho, from 7 Greeks (tr. Guy Davenport)

[blue-july]

[kafk-a]

I think about this poem all the time.

[mournfulroses]

Yehuda Amichai, from The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai; “Six Poems for Tamar,”

[frogdilf-archive]

danusha laméris, bonfire opera: poems / emily dickinson, if i can stop one heart from breaking / swans, to be kind / bleachers, i wanna get better / mary oliver, dogfish / brian bilston, the kindness of strangers / poeticallyordinary

[sunkissedstanzas]

chiquitita, abba // co-star // x // i was born to love you, queen // euripides, from “orestes”, an oresteia, trans. anne carson // i will, mitski

[frutescence]

[Text ID: A series of six images, a combination of text and lyrics. 

ID 1/6, lyrics: chiquitita, tell me the truth / I’m a shoulder you can cry on / your best friend, I’m the one you must rely on

ID 2/6, a cropped screenshot from the astrology app costar: How does your baggage affect your ability to love and be loved?

ID 3/6, a screenshot of an anonymous tumblr ask: i knew i was in love when I said “thank you for putting up with me” and he said “when you say putting up with you it doesn’t feel right. i dont know how to explain it. but i’m not putting up with you. i’m building with you.” 

ID 4/6, lyrics: I was born to love you / with every single beat of my heart / yes, I was born to take care of you / every single day of my life

ID 5/6, theater dialogue: PYLADES I’ll take care of you / ORESTES It’s rotten work / PYLADES Not to me. Not if it’s you.

ID 6/6, lyrics: I will wash your hair at night / And dry it off with care / I will see your body bare / And still I will live here

End ID.]