i am no longer living in the aftermath.
we have two children now, and a home of our own. for your love and strength i am so grateful.
after all this time, you are the only one in my heart.
you always will be.
A joke I was once told goes, I didn’t choose this life, this life chose me. Fuck that. Choose a hell of your own making over the hell that unmakes you. Flower a garden of rage & eat & eat & eat.
— Natalie Wee, from “Wei Ying Tells Me about Resurrection,” Beast at Every Threshold
Kaveh Akbar, from "Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before", Calling a Wolf a Wolf
Why does no one talk about this?
Nico has a phone that he uses to text Will while he's in the underworld😭
H.D., from Helen in Egypt
[Text ID: I begin to remember the story, / do I remember what you remember?]
ppl say euphoria is unrealistic but at my middle school the math teacher turned into a crazy demon lady and a 12 year old vaporized her with a pen. said 12 year old later was on the news for terrorism.
Anonymous asked:
hi sora, may i know what's your favorites poems?
- "While The Child Sleeps, Sonya Undresses" (Ilya Kaminsky)
- “Our Story” (William Stafford)
- "Persimmons" & “This Room and Everything in It” (Li-Young Lee)
- “I Cannot Be Known” (Paul Eluard)
- "Notes from a Nonexistent Himalayan Expedition" (Wislawa Szymborska)
- "Song of Solomon"
- “The Hand Has Twenty-Seven Bones” (Natalie Diaz)
- “Vermeer” (Tomas Transtromer)
- “The Afternoon Sun” (C.P. Cavafy)
- "A Brief for the Defense" & “What is There to Say?” (Jack Gilbert)
- “Who Am I?” (Nazik al Mala’ika)
- "Monet Refuses the Operation" (Lisel Mueller)
- “The Author Writes the First Draft of His Wedding Vows” (Hanif Willis-Abdurraquib)
- “Great Things Have Happened” (Alden Nowlan)
- “Love Poem with Apologies for My Appearance” & “The Leash” (Ada Limón)
- “Self-Portrait at 28″ (David Berman)
- "Cloves" (Saadi Youssef)
- "Transformations of the Lover" (Adonis)
- “Asking the Way” (Ko Un)
- "Postscript" & “St. Kevin and The Blackbird” & “The Rain-Stick” (Seamus Heaney)
- “The Country Without a Post Office” (Agha Shahid Ali)
- “[Sonnet 102]” (William Shakespeare)
- "Stolen Moments" (Kim Addonizio)
- “After All This” (Richard Jackson)
- "And They Were Both Right" (Kapka Kassabova)
- “Rain Song” (Badr Shakir al-Sayyab)
- “The Road” (Kim Sowul)
- “Touch” & “Before the Beginning” & “As One Listens to the Rain” (Octavio Paz)
- "Children Who Love Each Other" (Jacques Prevert)
- "Try to Praise the Mutilated World" & "Flame" (Adam Zagajewski)
- “Prayer for the Mutilated World” (sam sax)
- "Song of Myself" & “The Sleepers” (Walt Whitman)
- “Love Poem” (Denise Levertov)
- “Inside the Apple” (Yehuda Amichai)
- "French Novel" (Richie Hofmann)
- “My Gift to You” (Roberto Bolaño)
- “The Flea” (John Donne)
- "The Cinnamon Peeler" (Michael Ondaatje)
- “The Stare” (Sujata Bhatt)
- "[again and again even though we know love’s landscape]" (Rilke)
- "These Poems" (June Jordan)
- “My Friend Yeshi” (Alice Walker)
cant wait to make enough money to buy my gf all the tattoo appointments she could ever want
can't believe people think harry potter could beat percy jackson in a fight when harry potter is literally british and percy is from new york
percy jackson has actually killed multiple people
bringing the property values of downtown [REDACTED] down one by one.
if everyone else gets to have fun during ordinance hours so do i :)