OCTOBER
l.m. montgomery, anne of avonlea / claude monet, autumn on the seine at argenteuil / carol bishop hipps / maryanne nguyen, …and i don’t know who i am anymore / sarah guillory, reclaimed / f. scott fitzgerald, the great gatsby / girl in red, we fell in love in october / jacqueline woodson, if you come softly / leon spilliaert, october evening / w.s. merwin, the love for october / richard o. moore, a reminiscence / when harry met sally (1989), dir. rob reiner / ray bradbury, long after midnight / ted kooser, a letter in october / victor charreton, la terrasse, automne / richard shelton, october / katherine blower / oamul lu / anne sexton, a self-portrait In letters
The moments between giggling beginnings
& sobbing peripheries.
My body got well aquainted
with your amber touch,
now remains unbothered in the alleyways
of fading emotions.
My heart remained sangfroid in
your presence,
even when the entire edifice was on fire,
but now me and my little heart burn
in your longing.
- Anneshwa
💔
“I’m not afraid of dying. Pieces of me die all the time.”
— Sage Francis
𝙹𝚞𝚕𝚢 𝟸𝟾, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹
[ID: sparkling, inextinguishable eyes. END ID]
For the first time in this lifetime, i felt miles of distance and an inch away closeness, in the same moment. Your mere words were enough to clutch my heart & make it bleed. You opened the gates with a volcanic force, slit my heart & went away in the morning light, and i longed just for another sight.
-Anneshwa
Competition kills the joy of the process.
In madness and in magnetic beauty, in glory and in melancholy.