#caitlin bailey

[eastofshane]

I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.

[Ilya's version]

[the lily and the crown, roslyn sinclair || rookies, heated rivalry || roadside attractions with the dogs of america, ada limón || study of a wounded hound, edwin henry landseer || hound, ferdinand von wright || rookies, heated rivalry || unknown || desperation sits heavy on my tongue, @/tullipsink || unknown || olympians, heated rivalry || nobody, mitski || olympians, heated rivalry || @/fugazi || in a dream you saw a way to survive; “I swear, next time I’ll see you I’ll be funny, clementine von radics || olympians, heated rivalry || moon song, phoebe bridgers || I'll believe in anything, heated rivalry || how to be a dog, andrew kane || A DOG ON A LEASH IN A LANDSCAPE, GERMAN SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY || conscience makes cowards of us all', briton riviere || rose, heated rivalry || solve for desire: poems; “to g, after the party”, caitlin bailey || the cottage, heated rivalry || unknown || norwegian wood, haruki murakami]

[feral-ballad]

Caitlin Bailey, from Solve for Desire: Poems; “To G, after the party”

[Text ID: “I wonder / what it would have felt like to / have a choice, to choose love, / to hold anything with both hands. / It’a taken me this long / to say I want I want I want,”]

[derangedrhythms]

Caitlin Bailey, Solve for Desire; from 'Pigeons'

[wishwars]

"I only exist in the word, sister, spun through white fields until I'm invisible to anyone who doesn't know I'm there. I tell you my body is a hollow, a fence, how there are so many colors I'll never see. Let me be refracted as you see best, woman with blue eyebrows, the smallest deer. Is it wrong? I know your heart is a cathedral. Sometimes you visit me and your hands become birds, unfurl the entire forest." -- Caitlin Bailey, "Grete Asks the Hard Question" (2012/2017)

[bones-ivy-breath]

Lost Letter by Caitlin Bailey, from Solve for Desire

Text ID:

My hands have done terrible things.

[rotgospels]

Caitlin Bailey, “Incantare” in Solve for Desire: Poems. 

[poetrywillsaveme]

I am hostage to your absence.

from ‘Some Elaborate’ in Solve for Desire, by Caitlin Bailey

[lifeinpoetry]

My body is a bruise, purpled with loss. I am tired of swallowing your name, finding ink on each of your shirts, red petals in the pages of books.

— Caitlin Bailey, from “Poppies,” Solve for Desire