Ada Limón On Preparing The Body For A Reopened World

remember being ten and future plans were so far away? and now you have one foot into that future and nothing seems to be right and all you want is to step back but the past keeps crumbling as soon as it's made. there's no going back, there's nothing to go back to.

the raw sexual power of using a semi-colon

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“a kind of tender petalled forgiveness comes in my hate for you / a forgiveness that knows how it is to hurt and hurt on when inside you turn off”

— Rebecca Tamás, from “\cunt hex\,” WITCH

Executive dysfunction in a nutshell

Parrot Dance

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“Despair takes you again and you remain sitting like a total invalid, sniveling until dark, darkness that brings endless insomnia and a dawn sadder than the dusk it preceded.”

— Arthur Rimbaud, from a letter to Isabelle Rimbaud wr. c. July 1891

I was so cruel to my body, & still it never once faltered in kicking/screaming/fighting me alive. I could not imagine a love as steady as the one I hated more than any other.

Swallowing blood, swallowing tears, legs brimming in too-sharp angles

— Topaz Winters, from “battlefield,” poems for the sound of the sky before thunder

Not sure how universal this experience is, but Tolkien’s concept of sea-longing resonated with me because I grew up in a coastal town and every time I have to live for an extended period of time away from the coast, I get this almost claustrophobic feeling that only goes away when I return to the seashore

a good and sensible adventure story.