May 2010
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“A poet is somebody who feels, and who expresses his feelings through words. This...”
– E.E. Cummings (via leprintemps) (via allthenight-tide)
Poetry 365: Things My Son Should Know After I've... →
I was young once. I dug holes near a canal and almost drowned. I filled notebooks with words as carefully as a hunter loads his shotgun. I had a father also, and I came second to an addiction. I spent a summer swallowing seeds and nothing ever grew in my stomach. Every woman I kissed, I…
Communion, Jeanann Verlee
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Communion, Jeanann Verlee
I know a boy who called his girlfriend’s body a “crime scene.” Dad, my body is a crime scene. My body is lint and gasoline and matchstick. My body is a brush fire. It’s ticking, Dad, a slow alarm. I have rain boots. Lots of them. It isn’t raining anymore. The words are coming back, Dad. The way they fit and jump in the...
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“The words ‘I am…’ are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing...”
– A. L. Kitselman (via robot-heart) (via underdogvictorious)
“Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic...”
– Frank Zappa, 1989 (via crookedindifference)
“You know, there are the enthusiasts for technology, and they always say - and...”
– Paul Auster, interviewed by Jonathan Lethem (the Believer Book of Writers talking to Writers) (via winterlief)
“Sometimes I imagine my own autopsy. Disappointment in myself: right kidney....”
– Nicole Krauss (via thechocolatebrigade) (via aura-avis)
“You don’t have to worry about what their vibration is if your vibration is one...”
– Abraham Hicks (via oceanofmind) (via thegshmee)
