My Friend Makes Me A Mix CD And It’s The Only Thing That Will Keep Me Both  Grounded And Above Ground

– Anne Carson, “Short Talk on Van Gogh”

my kink is when people actually stay

Dear Dr. Frankenstein

I, too, know the sciences of building men Out of fragments in little light Where I’ll be damned if lightning don’t 

Strike as I forget one  May have a thief’s thumb, 

Another, a murderer’s arm,  And watch the men I’ve made leave Like an idea I meant to write down, 

Like a vehicle stuck  In reverse, like the monster

God came to know the moment  Adam named animals and claimed  Eve, turning from heaven to her

As if she was his To run. No word he said could be tamed. 

No science. No design. Nothing taken Gently into his hand or your hand or mine,  Nothing we erect is our own. 

- Jericho Brown (The New Testament)

Choose yourself. You deserve you.

If you love somebody they turn into a God. But you can’t control what kind of God they turn into.

Emery Allen, Holy Things in This World (via larmoyante)

the dirty & the imbecile

my heart, falling victim to a kidnap my own head had devised,

cries a thousand fears under a flickering lamp.

my heart, freed from a crime my own head once orchestrated,

sings hallelujah in the rain.  

- @skinthepoet

I am pulling myself from the magician’s hat, night after night.

Guante, from A Love Song, A Death Rattle, A Battle Cry

Guante’s phenomenal collection of writing is available at the Button Store. Check it out today!

(via buttonpoetry)

Do you ever realize how badly you’re going to miss a moment while you’re living it? Like wow, these are the good days. I am here and I am happy and I feel alive.

Unknown (via sunsetquotes)

Elliott Erwitt. Mexico. San Miguel de Allende. 1987.