“I Have Been Younger In October Than In All The Months Of Spring”

a bunny’s rainy day out

Peace like a river snowfall ~ Eileen Kitayama 2018

“Flesh, Marble, Flower, Venus, it’s you I believe in.”

— Arthur Rimbaud, from Selected Poems & Letters; “The Blacksmith,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

“(…) memories drift & nod like belladonna kissing the ground.”

— Yusef Komunyakaa, from The Thorn Merchant’s Wife in “Neon Vernacular: New And Selected Poems” 

DESSERT

nostalgia

“It was summer. I didn’t feel like saying anything. I felt as if I were going along some road of inexpressible sorrow.”

— Takuboku Ishikawa, from “Romaji Diary & Sad Toys,” published c. 1985 (via violentwavesofemotion)

“There was no warning about how painful it was to tell a star of its own ending, (…)”

— Nikita Gill, from What It Means To Be A Forgotten Magic Maker in “Great Goddesses: Life Lessons From Myths And Monsters”

this is romance