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when we are loved we are afraid
love will vanish
when we are alone we are afraid
love will never return
and when we speak we are afraid
our words will not be heard
nor welcomed
but when we are silent
we are still afraid
So it is better to speak
remembering
we were never meant to survive.
Audre Lorde, “A Litany for Survival”, from The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde (via antigonies)
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Typewriter Series #2611 by Tyler Knott Gregson
It’s not excuses I’m making but truths, what do you say when you feel drawn to some other place, when inspiration calls from there but you can’t answer, when you’re stuck and frozen in place and you just need something alive to hold on to, to wrap yourself in, a piece of green to replace the brown that’s become such commonplace? What should I say then, what words will do justice to it and let you know how I am aching and longing and wishing for it?
It’s been an eternity (or at least a few decades) spent here in this desert, this piece of land that lives with two seasons, one of freeze and one of smoke, and I am desperate for the scent of life in forest, on hillside, in rainfall strong with sea and tide.
It’ll come one day, and it’ll mean more when it does, when all this waiting adds up to relief. We’ll be there, hand in hand as silhouettes against the blue hour and fog. We’ll be there and our hearts will beat slow and steady and our breath will finally return.
-Tyler Knott Gregson-
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Say we’re not being hunted. Say instead
of shotguns, the men
hide rhinestones under their pillows.
Say the pillow I pressed
your face into had stolen every inch of cold
the city locked in necklaces of spit
& left stunned on the sidewalks.
Say spit like we could be caught.
Say city like we’re nowhere
near going back.
Brad Trumpfheller, “Reconstructions,” published in Diagram (via bostonpoetryslam)
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A moonlight tint drifts along
the backs of my hands
bathing them in pearly radiance
I feel your hand cradle my face
one finger hovering so gently
over my trembling lips’ flesh
while our eyes speak
in dark jade depths
with midnight pressed close
a velvet cloak grazing our skin
pulling your thoughts into mine
beneath our arc of moon
—-
flower moon//
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5.17.19
Image: Ghada Moustafa
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“Those of us who’ve loved and lost know that love can leave you ravished like a war-torn country with an impact crater the size of a heart that no amount of time can possibly fill.”
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Fresh Leaving the anger behind and following the path to peace and acceptance.
To know me is to love you.
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You will not rush me
I am only in a rush
to do what I love
Nicholas A Browne | Haiku 618 (via theprocast)
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