#j.d. mcclatchy

[alas-pooryorick]

                    

On Friendship, Falling in Love and Falling Apart, pt. 2 (pt. 1, pt. 3, pt. 4)

Ode to Friendship, Noor Hindi

The Truth Has Three Sides, Sabrina Benaim

I've Got a Dark Alley and a Bad Idea That Says You Should Shut Your Mouth (Summer Song), Fall Out Boy

Autumn, Patty Dickson Pieczka

Unknown

Unknown

Nature Poem, Chen Chen

Planet of Love, Richard Siken

Ever Yours: The Essential Letters, Vincent Van Gogh

Just Like Heaven, The Cure

Speeches for Dr. Frankenstein, Margaret Atwood

The Dialogue of Desire and Guilt, J.D. McClatchy

Someplace Like Montana, Ada Limón

Cold Solace, Anna Belle Kaufman

Fleabag (2016-2019)

Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out, Richard Siken

Your Love Finds Its Way Back, Sierra DeMulder

The Diaries of Katherine Mansfield

Moments, Mary Oliver

[wixtorian]

Fellow Travelers, ep. 8, "Make it Easy" // J.D. McClatchy, “The Dialogue of Desire and Guilt” // Fellow Travelers, ep. 8, "Beyond Measure" // Thomas Mallon, Fellow Travelers, ch. 39 // Fellow Travelers, ep. 1, "You're Wonderful // Bonnie Raitt, "I Can't Make You Love Me" // Fellow Travelers, ep. 8, "Beyond Measure" // Thomas Mallon, Fellow Travelers, Prologue // Fellow Travelers, ep. 8, "Beyond Measure" // Dara Yen Elerath, "Why I Could Not Leave My Abuser" // Fellow Travelers, ep. 8, "Beyond Measure" // Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, ch. 4

[a-ramblinrose]

This is a book, first of all, about desire. 🌹

[malojasnake]

“a deep winter yawn

                         the wind caught napping”

— Fog Tropes, by J.D. McClatchy

[headlightsforever]

Sometimes, it is true, she has whittled poems down to a monotonous simplicity. And her range is narrow. But within these limitations, her poems shimmer in the cool, mysterious light her passion and intelligence cast on them.

J.D. McClatchey on Linda Gregg in NYT, March 1, 1986

[paulrosevear]

Love is the quality of attention we pay to things.

J.D. McClatchy

[tenderblues]

I’m all yours. I’ll eat and drink you, wake and dream you, make you want what I want.

⏤J.D. McClatchy, THE DIALOGUE OF DESIRE AND GUILT

[dk-thrive]

a vague wish, a sharp craving, a steadfast longing, a helpless obsession

A desire can be a vague wish, a sharp craving, a steadfast longing, a helpless obsession. It can signal an absence or a presence, a need or a commitment, an ideal or an impossibility...And the still deeper root of the word links it to star and shine, as if our desires, and bright centers of our being, were also like the fixed fates in the heavens, determining the course of our lives. Indeed, our mundane experience of desire often coincides with this sense of something beyond our control, of something confusing, something driving us beyond the bounds of habit or reason. It is the heart of our hearts, the very stuff of the self. Desire explodes past borders of time or law. It drifts through veils of propriety.

~ J.D. McClatchy, Love Speaks Its Name (Everyman's Library; May 15, 2001)