July 2011
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“Even if all fat people are the way they are due to their bad choices, even if...”
– Frances Lockie
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Antique by Robert Pinsky
I drowned in the fire of having you, I burned In the river of not having you, we lived Together for hours in a house of a thousand rooms And we were parted for a thousand years. Ten minutes ago we raised our children who cover The earth and have forgotten that we existed It was not maya, it was not a ladder to perfection, It was this cold sunlight falling on this warm earth. When I turned you went...
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“‘A sentence, unlike a line, is not a station of the cross.’ I said this to the...”
– Lynn Emanuel, from “The Politics of Narrative: Why I Am A Poet” (via proustitute)
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Break It Up, Patti Smith (via...
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“Does it read as a book one wonders.”
– Francesca Woodman, journal entry, 1975 (via aperfectcommotion)
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“While it is true the ‘patriarchy hurts men too’, the fact of the...”
– Megan Milanese (via wewantrevolutiongirlstylenow)
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For Frank Stanford by Franz Wright
The scheming and chattering mind’s abrupt sense in the night of its being
surrounded by mind, unendingly, starrily dwarfed and encircled
by mind whose voice is silence, utter silence unequivocally
kind… The first bird talking to the last stars—
maybe it was you who woke me today in the dark; I know you’re still around here somewhere.
I love you, therefore you are...
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“We may enjoy our room in the tower, with the painted walls and the commodious...”
– Virginia Woolf, The Common Reader 