#august quotes

[letsbeapoemtogether]

Marguerite Duras, from The Easy Life

[inkpressedpetals]

[fairydrowning]

Zoë Lianne, "Erasure"

Mary Oliver, "Felicity"

Emily Bronte, "Wuthering Heights"

[wedarkacademia]

"August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time."

-Sylvia Plath

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

"Summer is growing old and everything is flowing into a single melancholy murmur"

~ Tomas Tranströmer, from "The Cuckoo"

[mysterieuxclairdelune]

{Tumblr User: @poetryatmost (x)/ Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps/ Franz Kafka, from The Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1914-1923/ Anne Sexton, Live or Die; from 'Imitations of Drowning'/ Emily Dickinson, from "No crowd that has occurred" (Poem #515), Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson/Franz Kafka, from The Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1910-1913/ Tumblr User: @poetryatmost/ Listy Tamtego Lata, from Letters of Summer Past/ Carlie Hoffman, from "High Bridge Park," published in Gulf Stream/ Alex Dimitrov, from "Love," in Love and Other Poems}

[wordedarchive]

july seeps into august like the blood of a cherry on your white blouse. i want to get better. another summer drowned at the bottom of the pool, another summer spent with red stained lips and the smell of tart sleep and liquid tylenol. i want to bite my teeth into life and suck on the marrow, but i am swallowing my cherry pits. i will get it right next time. i will wash it off you, clean.

w. r, on the death of summer & baptismal promises

[adharagranley-writer]

first august morning; windows open, the smell of petrichor