#pilgrim bell

[rosejuicewonderdrunk]

“Some pain stays so long its absence becomes a different pain—”

—Excerpt from Kaveh Akbar, “Pilgrim Bell“.

[alliwanttodoiscollectpoetry]

Kaveh Akbar

[lifeinpoetry]

Imagine the emptiness in you, the vast cavities you have spent your life trying to fill—with fathers, mothers, lovers, language, drugs, money, art, praise—and imagine them gone. What’s left? Whatever you aren’t, which is what makes you—a house useful not because its floorboards or ceilings or walls, but because the empty space between them.

— Kaveh Akbar, from “The Miracle,” Pilgrim Bell

[starsalvation]

—Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell

[orpheuslament]

The Miracle, Kaveh Akbar

[hungryblueghost]

"The key, filed smooth to fit every lock, opens none."

—Kaveh Akbar, "Ghazal for the Men I Once Was"

[tendermimi]

“My hands love you more / than me, wanting only to feed you and feed / you.”

Kaveh Akbar, Portrait of the Alcoholic with Craving

[malaisequotes]

“Imagine the emptiness in you, the vast cavities you have spent your life trying to fill—with fathers, mothers, lovers, language, drugs, money, art, praise—and imagine them gone. What's left? Whatever you aren't, which is what makes you...”

The Miracle by Kaveh Akbar