#salma deera

[mournfulroses]

Salma Deera, from a poem titled "a girl makes a decision: part 2," featured in Letters from Medea: Poems

[the-mighty-dragon]

Wanting a romantic relationship as a (most likely) aroace not in a "If you want a girlfriend you can't be aroace, it doesn't work like that" kind of way but in a "I want someone to choose me. I want someone to choose me, day after day, for the rest of our lives, because they want to. I want to be someone's partner, I want to be someone's first pick, I want to be their favorite one. I don't want to be shunted aside in favor of husbands, wives, and kids, because our schedule changed, because we've moved on to different things. I want to be a priority. I want them to fight to keep me, I want to fight to keep them. I want to hold someone, I want to be held. I want to exist in their space, I want them in mine. I don't want to find out they mattered so much more to me than I did to them. I dream of a love so heavy it makes my spine throb." kind of way

[metamorphesque]

― Salma Deera, Letters From Medea

[text ID: The centre of every poem is this: / I have loved you. / I have had to deal with that.]

[facinaoris]

Letters from Medea, Salma Deera

[lavenderstobins]

salma deera, joan of arc in interview

[petaltexturedskies]

Salma Deera, from "Salt"

[wolfboywarmachines]

actually, maybe i'll just lay here and let the infield grass take me.

"to the younger brother" - rainer maria rilke // sandy koufax (arthritis) // @hell-brain (2019) // prince fielder (neck and spine) // "the torn up road" - richard siken (2005) // j.r. richard (stroke) // @vampleclerc (2024) // bo jackson (hip; also ended nfl career) // "speak low" - kurt weill and ogden nash (1943) // lou gehrig (als) // "the truth about grief" - fortesa latifi (2019) // roy campanella (spine) // "2 poems" - fortesa latifi (2016) // juan encarnacion (skull) // "a nice quiet place" - f. scott fitzgerald (1930) // tony conigliaro (eye) // "marble arch" - erin lecount (2025) // ramón ortiz (elbow) // letters from medea - salma deera (2015)

[weltonboys]

salma deera