April 2013
4 posts
7 tags
“When our breasts arrived
as a kind of currency, we’d tug
our camisoles low,...”
– Megan Falley, “Beginning in an Ice Cream Truck and Ending in a Court Room (After Kim Addonizio)”
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“It’s just so strange.
You used to love me,
and now you’re a stranger
who...”
– Clementine von Radics (via clementinevonradics)
clementinevonradics:
Please Know:
Whether it’s the days you burn more brilliant than the sun
Or the nights you collapse into my lap, curling your body into a thousand broken questions
You are the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.
I will love you when you are a still day.
I will love you when you are a hurricane.
March 2013
47 posts
“I want to kiss you.
Like big, fat kisses. Or angels. Or stars.
Or something. I...”
– Love Poems, Clementine von Radics (via clementinevonradics)
“Do not fall in love
With people like me.
people like me
will love you so hard...”
– Do Not Fall In Love With People Like Me, alonesomes
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“We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.”
– Eduardo Galeano
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“And oh, the oh my nape of the neck. The up-swept oh my nape of the neck. I could walk behind anyone and fall in love.”
—Dorianne Lux, The Shape of Backs
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“men
want to fix you
save you
or fuck you
I can’t be fixed
and I don’t care...”
– Jeanann Verlee, “men”
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“When he sleeps,
the snoring does not bother me:
the rhythmic growl, gravel...”
– Sierra DeMulder, “Heart Apnea”
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“You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to...”
– Aaron Freeman, “You Want a Physicist to Speak at Your Funeral”
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“I thought leaving you would be easy,
just walking out the door
but I keep...”
– Clementine von Radics (via clementinevonradics)
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My Mother's Hands
How you have spun whole worlds for me between your fingers, cupped palms. How you fed me, clothed me, taught me the shape of trees and bodies and how to brush my hair without hurting myself, how I breathe only because you allowed me to grow in your womb. Thank you for the bed in your belly, mom. I am sorry for the pale white scar on your abdomen, for how I refused to let go, so they...
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“The questions I would have liked to ask people were: ‘Are you in love?...”
– Françoise Sagan, “A Certain Smile”
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“kisses are a better fate
than wisdom”
– e.e. cummings
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“I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
– Pablo Neruda
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“Once I spoke the language of the flowers. Once I understood each word the...”
– Shel Silverstein
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“Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like...”
– Janet Fitch
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“As it has been said:
Love and a cough
cannot be concealed.
Even a small...”
– Anne Sexton
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“I can’t stop watching
your mouth and what it does to
the vowels in my name.”
– Kristina Hayes
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“I am vertical
But I would rather be horizontal.
I am not a tree with my root...”
– Sylvia Plath, “I Am Vertical”
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“So I will lie beside you here
unnamed
until my hands recover from your skin.”
– John Burnside
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“Make love to me in Spanish.
Not with that other tongue.
I want you juntito a...”
– Sandra Cisneros, “Dulzura”
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“I will remember the kisses, our lips raw with love,
and how you gave me...”
– Charles Bukowski
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“The moon is backing away from us
an inch and a half each year. That means
if...”
– Dorianne Laux, “Facts About the Moon”
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“But to come home each night
have a drink, go to bed,
and be so deeply...”
– Clementine von Radics (via clementinevonradics)
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“My heart was too big for my body so I let it go and most days this world has...”
– Anis Mojgani, from “Come Closer”
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“You are always ticking inside of me and I dream of you more often than I don’t....”
– Sierra DeMulder, from “Unrequited Love Poem”
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“I was satisfied with haiku until I met you,
but now I want a Russian novel,
a...”
– Dean Young
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“The first time
you took off your clothes
in front of me, you slid
the white...”
– Gabriel Gadfly, “Survival”
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“You are a souvenir shop, where he goes
to remember how much people miss him...”
– Sierra DeMulder, from “Unrequited Love Poem”
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Now That You're 21
These years will be glamorous—all the magazines say so. You’ll learn what not to mix tequila with, what shoes to pair with that dress, what your default lipstick
will be, the book and movie and song that will save you after every failed relationship, each summer-at-the-beach fling. You will learn the measure of patience and most important,
how to be alone. You will collect lonely like some...
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“I wonder if you know yet that you’ll leave me. That you
are a child playing...”
– Clementine von Radics (via clementinevonradics)
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“It is only September.
I don’t know how many seasons
I will be allowed to love...”
– Megan Falley, “A Simple Love Poem”
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“There are things sadder
than you and I. Some people
do not even touch.”
– Sonia Sanchez
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“Everyone who terrifies you is sixty-five percent water.
And everyone you love...”
– Finn Butler
“They simply never understand,
do they,
that sometimes solitude is
one of the...”
– Charles Bukowski
“At 7:35 A.M, you lay your tired body on mine
before peeling off, like a...”
– Megan Falley, “What the Hour Hand Said to the Minute Hand”
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“The human heart is a beating muscle
We evolved to build bone cages around,...”
– Clementine von Radics (via clementinevonradics)
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“We spoke all night in tongues,
in fingertips, in teeth.”
– Robert Hass, from “Spring”
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“When I run my hand across a page of poetry I do not want oil and onionskin, I do...”
– Charles Bukowski
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“She stuck a bookmark
in my heart
and walked away.”
– Saul Williams, from “She”
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“I want you to tell me about every person you’ve ever been in love with. Tell me...”
– Andrea Gibson, from “Asking Too Much”
“These are the things about my body: It does
not always want to get up. Some...”
– Kristina H., “On Getting Asked About My Appearance”
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“I want us to become a language
for euphoria, an alphabet of limbs.”
– Adonis, “Beginnings of the Body, Ends of the Sea”
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“Beautiful, sobbing
high-geared fucking
and then to lie silently
like deer...”
– Richard Brautigan, “Deer Tracks”
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“They amputated
your thighs off my hips.
As far as I’m concerned
they are all...”
– Yehuda Amichai, “A Pity. We Were Such A Good Invention”
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The Morning After
A little white pill the size of your pinky nail and two mouthfuls of Coke hide your crime. You don’t think to tell your mother, who would kill you if she found out. You don’t even stop to wonder about motherhood, if it’s for you. If it’s not. All you care about is fear and your boyfriend holding your hand as you give the $50 bill to the pharmacist. The rest of us wait patiently behind you,...
