unapologeticallyher reblogged
50shadesofdistance
“These poems they are things that I do in the dark reaching for you whoever you are”
— June Jordan, from “These Poems”
“once, you could throw a rock into a wave for someone waiting on the other side of your life. smoother by the time they found it. a palm washed up to shore. once, stones in a pocket didn’t mean walking into the sea.”
— Jess Rizkallah, “the prefix mar means sea,” published in The Rumpus
dreams
“Nothing before you counts, and I can’t imagine an after.”
— Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor and Park
Guillaume Apollinaire, tr. by Anne Hyde Greet, from Calligrams; “Snapshot,”
This speaks to me on a weird level that makes me want to sob a little.
Comet, 2014
“We try to survive ourselves.”
— Meena Alexander, from “Fault Lines,” originally published c. 1993
by alicia eggert (+)
not to flex on anyone but i’ve never wanted to fuck a serial killer
I am lost in my mind, I get lost in my mind. - Head and the Heart
Of Monsters and Men- Organs
Lola Ridge, from To the Many; Collected Poems of Lola Ridge; “Silence,” (via violentwavesofemotion)