andrumedus reblogged
“Do you hunger for me, do you burn for me?”
— Margaret Atwood, from ‘The Heart Goes Last’
“Do you hunger for me, do you burn for me?”
— Margaret Atwood, from ‘The Heart Goes Last’
pre–amphibian, margaret atwood
“Love is choosing, the snake said. The kingdom of God is within you because you ate it.”
— Margaret Atwood, from Selected Poems II; Quattrocento. (via xshayarsha)
“I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession with undertones of nausea.”
— Margaret Atwood - from Cat’s Eye
[Text ID: This is how I learned to steer through darkness by no stars.]
Margaret Atwood, Interlunar; from ‘A Boat’
It rains & rains. You’re absent / as if unborn.
Margaret Atwood, True Stories; from ‘Small Poems for the Winter Solstice’
[Text ID: We rot inside, the doctor said. To put a hand on another is to touch death, no doubt. Though there is also]
Margaret Atwood, Interlunar; from ‘The Skeleton, Not as an Image of Death’