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louisegluck:

I am starved for tenderness and that is what  is the matter with me and has been the  matter with me for months.ALT

May Sarton, from Recovering: A Journal [ID in alt text]

strykerlancer:

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Ray Bradbury, from “Fahrenheit 451.”

luthienne:

And why does the past / come back like this: looming, a human figure // formed—ALT

Natasha Trethewey, from Thrall: Poems; “Mythology”

metamorphesque:

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a you-shaped hole in the universe
Celia Paul, Ocean Vuong, Owen Gent, Alejandra Pizarnik (trans. Yvette Siegert), Karman Verdi, Edna St Vincent Millay

لاشيء يظاهي شعوري المقيت اتجاه الحياة وهي تحيك لي حكاية مكررة. عمري ٢٧ وحكايا حياتي تتكرر بكل سنة في نفس الموضع. وظيفة جديدة أكرهها منعزلة في حمام المكتب وصوت المكيف يقلقني، لاجديد. العادة مثقلة بسؤال وجودي محير “هل انتمي هنا؟” هل حياة البالغين تقتصر على دفع مصاريف وتوتر مستمر و وحدة قاتلة ؟

ololygas:

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Basic August, Eileen Myles

(Source: poetspath.com)

luthienne:

Don't speak to me, please, / about clarity and proportionate response. // The world is a can of contents under pressure; / a human being should have a warning label on the side / that says, Beware, Disorganized Narrative Inside; / Prone to frequent sideways bursting // of one feeling through anotherALT

Tony Hoagland, from Application for Release from the Dream; “Wasp”

strykerlancer:

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May Sarton, from “Journal of a Solitude.