“God, she had me by the throat, by the hip bone, by the moon. God, she hurt me with my own horns.”
— Natalie Díaz, from The Cure for Melancholy Is to Take the Horn; Postcolonial Love Poem, 2020
Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives
being tired all the time is such a mystery.... is it anaemia? vitamin d deficiency? chronic fatigue syndrome? depression? insomnia?? is it just the crushing weight of being alive in a capitalist society??? someone cure me
Marty McConnell, “the sacrament of penance also has four parts,” from when they say you can’t go home again, what they mean is you were never there (via bostonpoetryslam)
Mary Oliver, from “The Moths”, Dream Work
black canary and green arrow in green arrow: citizen’s arrest
Bookercore
1. Re: Stacks, Bon Iver
2. Achilles Come Down, Gang of Youths
3. Salt and the Sea, The Lumineers
4. Cringe (stripped), Matt Maeson
5. Noah, Amber Run
6. It Will Come Back, Hozier
Have you ever tried to cross a bridge while it is burning?
Come here, make love to me.
I do not know how else to explain it, the question
— Koleka Putuma, from “Twenty-One Ways of Leaving,” Collective Amnesia
ernest hemingway, the garden of eden (via wordsnpoetry)
Louise Glück, from Midsummer in “Poems 1962-2012 (via adrasteiax)
Rebecca Lindenberg, excerpt of “Love, An Index”, from Love, An Index (via antigonick)
Mary Oliver, from “Dogfish”, Dream Work
SUPERNATURAL (2005-2020) S04E16, ON THE HEAD OF A PIN