May 2013
1 post
April 2013
3 posts
March 2013
8 posts
“Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.”
– Mary Oliver. “Sometimes.” Red Bird (2008)
“[You think I’m not a goddess?
Try me.
This is a torch song.]
Touch me and...”
– Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing (poem), by Margaret Atwood
“bees, my
skin smells
of sun, the
insides of
roses. I want
to eat that...”
– Lyn Lifshin, Honeysuckle
February 2013
10 posts
January 2013
20 posts
“I like an ending that’s both a door and a window.”
– Stanley Kunitz
“I have buried you in every place I’ve been. You keep ending up in my shaking...”
– Bon Iver
“I know
you and I
are not about poems or
other sentimental bullshit
but I...”
– Clementine von Radics
“I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Our hearts beat so loud the neighbours think we’re fucking
when I’m just trying...”
– Andrea Gibson, Pansies
“Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.”
– Robert Brault
“I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes...”
– Mary Shelley, Frankenstein.
“Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I’m gazing at a distant star. It’s...”
–
Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
December 2012
24 posts
“I’ve had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower I can’t quite...”
– Charles Bukowski, Screams From the Balcony
