Living lightly

Clauds Scorpio, residing in the DMV

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Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

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Mary Oliver, from “Of Love”, Red Bird

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E.E. Cummings, Complete Poems, 1904-1962

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yea

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May Sarton, The House by the Sea

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How Animals Mourn

Anguish by August Friedrich Schenk † The Dead Miner (Mourning the Master) by Charles Christian Nahl † The Faithful Hound by sir Edwin Henry Landseer RA † The Orphan. A Memory of Auvergne by August Friedrich Schenk

[ethelcainlovebot]

- Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

[archbudzar]

But Love Was The Archer, 2024

Colored pencil, acrylic, and ink on bristol

[feral-ballad]

Rose Flint, ed. by Kate Rogers and Viki Holmes, from Not a Muse: The Inner Lives of Women: A World Poetry Anthology; "Black Wind"

[Text ID: “These are the nights when everything cages me: / your gentleness, our love, the spaces between us”]

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Jeanette Winterson, from Gut Symmetries

[Text ID: “I am civilized but my needs are not. What is it that lashes in the darkness?”]

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I cannot assume you will understand me. It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear. Some story we must have. Stray words on crumpled paper. A weak signal into the outer space of each other.

Jeanette Winterson, from Gut Symmetries

[feral-ballad]

Unfortunately I threw my heart to the dogs. Never mind. No one will notice how much is missing from the inside, will they?

Jeanette Winterson, from Gut Symmetries

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Caitlin Bailey, from Solve for Desire: Poems; “Pigeons”

[Text ID: “The most brilliant part of / you exists to haunt me:”]

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Caitlin Bailey, from Solve for Desire: Poems; “Pigeons”

[Text ID: “Sometimes I can’t believe my heart, / how it continues. / how it isn’t black and withered, / how the chambers remain clear / the beat plain and perfect.”]

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Caitlin Bailey, from Solve for Desire: Poems; “Incantare”

[Text ID: “Someone has replaced your heart / with raw meat. / That delicacy. I’m working on a trick / where I come across sated. / Where I don’t remember how to be ravenous.”]

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Caitlin Bailey, from Solve for Desire: Poems; “The field that resists naming”

[Text ID: “You are taking a class in / indifference. / You want to be able to ignore / his hands”]

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Caitlin Bailey, from Solve for Desire: Poems; “Definition Of”

[Text ID: “To come to you willingly— / even now I ask foe this ache.”]

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Caitlin Bailey, from Solve for Desire: Poems; “Poppies”

[Text ID: “My body is a bruise, purpled with loss. / I am tired of swallowing your name, / finding ink on each of your shirts, / red petals in the pages of books.”]

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Ama Codjoe, from Bluest Nude: Poems; “Bluest Nude”

[Text ID: “I crave. I want to be seen clearly or not at all.”]