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Hiraeth

@unapologeticallyher

Homesickness for somewhere or someone that never was
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“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

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Guillaume Apollinaire, tr. by Anne Hyde Greet, from Calligrams; “Snapshot,”

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“We try to survive ourselves.”

Meena Alexander, from “Fault Lines,” originally published c. 1993

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I am not the kind that can be emptied.

Lola Ridge, from To the Many; Collected Poems of Lola Ridge; “Silence,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

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