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[stunningpicture]

[social-justice-stuff]

I don’t know shit about photography, but the person who took this shot must be given the highest award of them all.

this is breathtaking

This is now one of my top three favorite photos of all time. 

another one of my favorites

[bruwho]

[444yatty]

[queenjsxo]

[theclinae]

Lana 💙

[theclinae]

I keep trying to turn back the clocks, do it over, make it better. But I keep realizing that every time I run desperate towards you it is more harmful then healing; destructive

[bostonpoetryslam]

“a confession: i’m sad a fact: it’s fine facts are linear and conditional and true at least twice a day don’t ask me for the time, i’ve smashed all the clocks in here. but when i stand by the window my face is a sundial if you rly need 2 know you’ll have to fucking look at me.”

— Jess Rizkallah, “Metadata,” published in Underblong

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[endotherms-blog]

[bostonpoetryslam]

“I like to read, and I like to be involved in reading. And for me, writing is part of what it is to be involved in reading.”

— Fred Moten, interviewed by David Wallace for the New Yorker

[theclinae]

Of course

[bostonpoetryslam]

“So, if there’d be a sound between us, let it be one that starts with touch, which is music. Music that, over accordion keys, unclenches the fist of ancestry, loosens fingers into rose petals.”

— Valzhyna Mort, “Cenotaph,” published in the Los Angeles Review

[theclinae]

Wild and provoking when you then on it

[bostonpoetryslam]

“This is what poetry is: not a kind of public posturing but a private language of music and imagery that is strange and compelling enough that it can speak privately to thousands of people at the same time.”

— Ilya Kaminsky, interviewed by Garth Greenwell for Poets & Writers

[theclinae]

Fucking truth here

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[igmakeup]

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Hi, Artemis. How would you define someone who is individually powerful? I am very curious about your perspective. Have a lovely day.

A person is powerfully individual when they feel free inside themselves; free to embody the complexity of their nature, free to make choices that correspond to their dreams and desires, free to think and act for themselves and free to just…be the person they are without caring how “normal” they appear or whether who they are corresponds to some picture perfect that has absolutely nothing to do with how beautifully flawed and unique the human psyche really is.

[theclinae]

Thank you for this

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“I felt the wildest, most painful longing,”

— Denise Levertov, from The Complete Poems of Denise Levertov; “The Trace,”

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Deborah deNicola, from Where Divinity Begins: Poems; “Cold Sore,”