January 2010
December 2009
Breath / Mark Strand
When you see them tell them I am still here, that I stand on one leg while the other one dreams, that this is the only way,
that the lies I tell them are different from the lies I tell myself, that by being both here and beyond I am becoming a horizon…
“Don’t let anyone know your real name. Names have power.”
– The Books of Magic, Neil Gaiman (via onlyseven)
“I loved Olivia. But that doesn’t mean I didn’t recognize that she...”
– Karen Russell, “Haunting Olivia”
Travelogue for Exiles, Karl Shapiro
Look and remember. Look upon this sky; Look deep and deep into the sea-clean air, The unconfined, the terminus of prayer. Speak now and speak into the hallowed dome. What do you hear? What does the sky reply? The heavens are taken: this is not your home. Look and remember. Look upon this sea; Look down and down into the tireless tide. What of a life below, a life inside, A tomb, a cradle in the...
“I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.”
– Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (via handkerchiefsandwich) (via wutheringworlds) (via freckledivories)
“I am blue and unwell.”
“My gossamer dress of spider webs
is grayer than grayest fear.
I am alone,...”
– I Am The Rain
“i end up in the kitchen i end up in front of the refrigerator in front of the...”
– the realm of possibility (via splitneedles) (via soft-skeletons)
kathleenjoy:
after all these years ankle deep in the other ocean - Pamela Miller Ness
“Put out the fear of silence
Put out the need for guidance
Put out your own...”
– Silversun Pickups
