February 2012
11 posts
when you notice a car coming towards you and you question whether it’s worth it to move
It’s dark.
You exhale a fist of memory.
I love you like weathering wood
in a...
– James L. White, from “Lying in Sadness” in The Salt Ecstasies (via proustitute)
Don’t try to fool the fist that’s tightening right beneath your heart.
– Ted Berrigan, from “Thin Breast Doom” in Collected Poems (via ahuntersheart)
January 2012
15 posts
But granted the consciousness that even between the closest people there persist...
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters: 1899-1902, trans. Jane Bannard Greene (via proustitute)
December 2011
18 posts
everything is wrong
Where do the words go
when we have said them?
– Margaret Atwood, from “The Small Cabin” (via the-final-sentence)
November 2011
28 posts