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About: I believe in poetry. I believe in words. I believe our first thoughts have a stirring vivacity that can inspire and change others and ourselves. I believe in listening to those musings and inviting them in. Natalie Goldberg says in her book, "Writing is a path to meet ourselves and become intimate." Find the time to reacquaint yourself with those original thoughts. Write, read, play, compose, and always be in love with your life.

Emerald Spider Between Rose Thorns

Imagine, not even or really ever tasting&nbsp ;

a peach until well over 50, not once

sympathizing with Blake naked in his garden

insisting on angels until getting off the table

and coming home with my new heart. How absurd

to still have a body in this rainbow-gored,

crickety world and how ridiculous to be given one

in the first place, to be an object

like an orchid is an object, or a stone,

so bruisable and plummeting, arms

waving from the evening-ignited lake,

heading singing in the furnace feral and sweet,

tears that make the face grotesque,

tears that make it pure. How easy

it is now to get drunk on a single whiff

like a hummingbird or ant, on the laughter

of one woman and who knew how much I’d miss

that inner light of snow now that I’m in Texas.

—Dean Young

“Say you didn’t have to feel the one you love
Grow distant in the parentheses of your arms

Say this life and let it be enough, for once.”
-Joe Bolton, “Song to Be Spoken, Not Sung” —(via ahuntersheart)

aseaofquotes:

Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

: Fragments for the End of the YearOn average, odd years have been the...

growing-orbits:

Fragments for the End of the Year

On average, odd years have been the best for me.

I’m at a point where everyone I meet looks like a version
of someone I already know.

Without fail, fall makes me nostalgic for things I’ve never experienced.

The sky is molting. I don’t know
if this is global…

awritersruminations:

Favorite Books Read in 2012

Mourning Diary by Roland Barthes
The Blue Octavo Notebooks by Franz Kafka
Stoner by John Williams
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Asylum Piece by Anna Kavan
Ice by Anna Kavan
The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector
The Lover by Marguerite Duras
The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch

theparisreview:

Google Poetics (via millionsmillions).

aseaofquotes:

— Pablo Neruda

(via http://www.piccsy.com)

“you have the inalienable right to be both depressingly awful.
And insanely beautiful, simultaneously.” —

Tessa Rumsey, Copperopolis

“Intense bursts of energy are now emanating from the sun. And you are lit from within.
Like it ain’t no thing. “I am lit from within!” —

Tessa Rumsey, Copperopolis

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