loving you is like breathing

Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies

Nikki Giovanni, The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998

some of my favorite tiny love stories

update:

(from nyt’s modern love column)

Ada Limón, from “Sometimes I Think My Body Leaves a Shape in the Air”, The Carrying: Poems

Bianca Stone, from What Is Otherwise Infinite: Poems; “Cutting Odette’s Fingernails”

— Georgia O’Keeffe 

Text ID: to devour and be devoured,

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the complete works: the diary, virginia woolf // erasure, zoë lianne // dandelion wine, ray bradbury // the unabridged journals of sylvia plath, sylvia plath // the women, kim addonizio // august, mary oliver // the moon and more, sarah dessen // high bridge park, carlie hoffman.

break my arms around the one i love

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URSULA K. LE GUIN x RENÉ MAGRITTE

The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (1975);

La Foret, or The Forest (1927), painting, oil on canvas

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A Drink of Water // by Jeffrey Harrison

When my nineteen-year-old son turns on the kitchen tap / and leans down over the sink and tilts his head sideways / to drink directly from the stream of cool water, / I think of my older brother, now almost ten years gone, / who used to do the same thing at that age;

and when he lifts his head back up and, satisfied, / wipes the water dripping from his cheek / with his shirtsleeve, it's the same casual gesture / my brother used to make; and I don't tell him / to use a glass, the way our father told my brother,

because I like remembering my brother / when he was young, decades before anything / went wrong, and I like the way my son / becomes a little more my brother for a moment / through this small habit born of a simple need,

which, natural and unprompted, ties them together / across the bounds of death, and across time ... / as if the clear stream flowed between two worlds / and entered this one through the kitchen faucet, / my son and brother drinking the same water.

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SOULMATES

HAMMOND B3 ORGAN CISTERN by GABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI

musings on kitchens (as sanctuaries of love) [part 1]

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