What are your favorite poems with beautiful/powerful/transformative endings?

the fact that i still have to unlearn shame… like come on that’s literally the most embarrassing thing to not have unlearned yet

ill keep writing about surviving because i don't know what else there is

If you’re always “putting yourself first” and “protecting your energy” there will be absolutely nothing interesting that happens in your life whatsoever. The only way you have a life that’s interesting to live is by getting caught up in stupid shit. You people are just scared of others contaminating your narcissistic sense of selfhood

Owls create snow angel imprints while hunting in winter when they swoop down to catch mice or squirrels.

Elissa Washuta, My Body is a Book of Rules

"I love you , I'm glad we're friends"

did this last night

i miss vhs tapes and cds i miss feeding my computers and tvs yummy treats. now theyre eating nothing. theyre being born without mouths

worst part about getting angry is how much it makes you want to be mean

There Used to Be a Lake Here Once (April, 2024)

I wrote this poetry collection when I was in college and it ended up getting acquired by the Writers Workshop, Kolkata- an Indian independent press that has published, among others, the works of Ruskin Bond, Vikram Seth, Kamala Das, Nissim Ezekiel and AK Ramanujan.

I grew up in Kolkata in the mid 2010s, whilst juggling multiple identities- Bengali girl child, queer teen brought up under a Catholic school system, later, a transgender enby poet and writer reconciling my personal and political worlds through academia and writing. This chapbook, divided into two sections, contains twenty-six poems on Bengali trans queer coming-of-age. I wrote it for the same reason I write all my stories: in the hopes that younger queer and trans desi youths can take some heart, and know they aren't as alone as I felt when I was a kid– even if the versions of India we have lived through are quite different, for better and for worse.

Anyway, cheesy stuff over. My author copies just arrived today and well, aren't they simply beautiful? Apparently, there will be more different colour editions. Which one do you like best?

Huge fan of when my speech patterns rub off on people enjoy when thay happens

Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love-Huma Qureshi / Figures (Drink Every Night)-Wesley Preis

i was so fucking sad when i was 14 and now when i fold my laundry or see a pool of moonlight on the floor of my bedroom i know that miracles exist. i see love in everything. love sees everything in me too

New Hanif Abdurraqib interview just dropped

[ID: There’s the imagined person, and then there’s the actual person. And I think sometimes even in love, even in our desire to love someone in a very big way, we are perhaps rushing to love the imagined person. Sometimes in my rush to love someone, I can see myself rushing past the actual person and trying to love the imagined person because the imagined person is a little bit easier for me to love. It is a person who I’ve made. It’s detrimental to you, the lover of the person, and it’s detrimental to the person who is wondering why they cannot be loved well.]