#the pillowcase

[snoweylily]

you said ‘I think I’m falling in love with you,’ igniting a great unendurable belongingness, like a match in a forest fire

[asoftepiloguemylove]

"I burned so long, so quiet you must have wondered if I loved you back. I did, I did, I do."

Annelyse Gelman, The Pillowcase, "Everyone I Love is a Stranger to Someone"

[dreamingmosaic]

I burned so long so quiet you must have wondered if I love you back. I did, I did, I do.

-Annelyse Gelman from "The Pillowcase"

[justanotherart-blog]

"I burned so long and so quiet, you must have wondered if I loved you back. I did, I did, I do."

- Annelyse Gelman, from "The Pillowcase"

[harrypotterhousequotes]

GRYFFINDOR:

"I burned so long and so quiet you must have wondered if I loved you back. I did, I did, I do."

--Annelyse Gelman (The Pillowcase)

[fairerhousethanprose]

The Pillowcase is printed with iridescent fish, each facing a different direction. I bought it for you at the Portland Goodwill our last semester in college. Spring break we brought it camping. I pretended I’d eaten sardines before, pretended I liked them. I don’t remember what you said when the condom broke. Probably ‘Oh, shit.’ The next day we drove into town. I took a pill and another pill and it was over. I couldn’t tell the difference, could have told my friends but didn’t, just made lots of dead baby jokes and went to bed in your dorm room. You’d put painter’s tape on all the edges. With the pillowcase, it was like living in the blueprint of an aquarium. I slept there the night I smoked Sasha’s weed and you stayed up for hours rubbing my back, telling fairytales so I wouldn’t totally lose it. I slept there the night I tried reading you Haruki Murakami’s Sleep but fell asleep. I slept there the night after the day I lost the bet and had to wear a lampshade on my head and your professor said ‘Nice hat.’ Later I learned she owns a lamp in the shape of a woman. I slept there the night you said ‘I think I’m falling in love with you,’ igniting a great unendurable belongingness, like a match in a forest fire. I burned so long so quiet you must have wondered if I loved you back. I did, I did, I do.

Annelyse Gelman

[asoftepiloguemylove]

"I burned so long so quiet you must have wondered if I loved you back. I did, I did, I do."

Annelyse Gelman, The Pillowcase

[thesandbeneathmytoes]

The Pillowcase

is printed with iridescent fish, each facing a different direction. I bought it for you at the Portland Goodwill our last semester

in college. Spring break we brought it camping. I pretended I’d eaten sardines before, pretended I liked them. I don’t remember what you said

when the condom broke. Probably ‘Oh, shit.’ The next day we drove into town. I took a pill and another pill and it was over. I couldn’t tell

the difference, could have told my friends but didn’t, just made lots of dead baby jokes and went to bed in your dorm room.

You’d put painter’s tape on all the edges. With the pillowcase, it was like living in the blueprint of an aquarium. I slept there

the night I smoked Sasha’s weed and you stayed up for hours rubbing my back, telling fairytales so I wouldn’t totally lose it.

I slept there the night I tried reading you Haruki Murakami’s Sleep but fell asleep. I slept there the night after the day I lost

the bet and had to wear a lampshade on my head and your professor said ‘Nice hat.’ Later I learned she owns a lamp in the shape of a woman.

I slept there the night you said ‘I think I’m falling in love with you,’ igniting a great unendurable belongingness, like a match in a forest fire.

I burned so long so quiet you must have wondered if I loved you back. I did, I did, I do.

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