May 2012
11 posts
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“A girl needs a gun these days on account of all the resonant memories.”
– Steve Kistulentz, excerpt from A Small War Has Ended (via theoryoflostthings)
May 1st
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“We don’t have a past so much as a bunch of electricity and liquor, power...”
– Jeffrey McDaniel, excerpt from The Benjamin Franklin of Monogamy (via theoryoflostthings)
May 1st
81 notes
April 2012
16 posts
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“Some piece of you stays in me and I’ll never give it back. The heart hoards...”
– Dean Young, excerpt from Poem Without Forgiveness (via theoryoflostthings)
Apr 30th
748 notes
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“Our heart wanders lost in the dark woods. Our dream wrestles in the castle of...”
– Jack Gilbert, Horses at Midnight Without a Moon (via yesyes)
Apr 26th
129 notes
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“My mother never forgave my father for killing himself, especially at such an...”
– Stanley Kunitz, The Portrait
Apr 24th
134 notes
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“What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee; What thou lov’st well is...”
– Rebecca Lindenberg, “In the Museum of Lost Objects” (via aubade)
Apr 23rd
74 notes
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“I am always hungry & wanting to have sex. This is a fact. If you get...”
– Peanut Butter, Eileen Myles
Apr 21st
223 notes
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“Afterward, the compromise. Bodies resume their boundaries. These legs, for...”
– Maxine Kumin, After Love
Apr 20th
354 notes
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“I marvel at the lean agency of ships— tall sloops cutting the cold elegance...”
– Heidy Steidlmayer, Scylla (via yesyes)
Apr 19th
254 notes
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“It will be the same as it has always been and you are right to pack your...”
– James Tate, from “Wait for Me” (via ahuntersheart)
Apr 18th
387 notes
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“Cover your arms. Don’t let your elbows show. That’s what my neighbors down...”
–  Minnie Bruce Pratt, Elbows
Apr 17th
317 notes
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“So lonely that i hope someone breaks in here do what they want but maybe...”
– Mingus Tourette, Nunto 47
Apr 16th
111 notes
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Apr 13th
31 notes
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“You say wind is only wind and carries nothing nervous in its teeth. I do not...”
– Andrew Zawacki, Credo (via yesyes)
Apr 10th
332 notes
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“I’m sleeping as I write this; you’re standing over me crying while Ella belts...”
– Juliet P. Howard, Ghazal: what love takes
Apr 9th
191 notes
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“in the split seconds before come and get it becomes oh god don’t stop, I...”
– Jessica Dawson, in speaking of the space between actions (via holdonmagnolia)
Apr 7th
207 notes