Mary Oliver, from Long Life: Essays And Other Writings originally published in 2004

when we’re done with our overwhelming grief we’ll eat i guess

april in northern california, 2024

Guillaume Apollinaire, tr. by Anne Hyde Greet, from Calligrammes: "Zone,"

you have to stay alive. you're going to be such a beautiful middle aged freak. young freaks will see you in the street and know that things can be okay.

must be nice to be able to let things go, unfortunately everything that has ever happened to me never leaves my mind

— Henry Miller, from a letter to Anais Nin, featured in A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller.

[Text ID: Give me a few days of peace in your arms-I need it terribly. I'm ragged, worn, exhausted. After that I can face the world.]

for some reason the most romantic thing i can think of is someone saying your name. the way it’s supposed to be said. early in the morning. late at night. mouth full of food. a whisper. in sob. in laughter. stuttering. idk there’s something about it that means more to me.

being in yr 20s is abt experiencing the worst thing you can imagine & then having to go to the grocery store

im the bug that your parents say is more scared of you than you are of me

I’m going to unlearn shame *bursts into tears and beats my head against a brick wall*

 Gordon Mortensen（b.1938 United States)

 Spring Flowers

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Sara Teasdale, from The Collected Poems of Sara Teasdale; "From The Sea,"

Sonia Sanchez, from Like the singing coming off the drums: Love Poems; “Remembering and Honoring Toni Cade Bambara”

[Text ID: “i have stored in my / blood the / memory of your voice”]