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@retroyellow

I feel yellow. I think that I am yellow.
“the smell of rain and wet trees — the smell of the last days of November.”

— Mihail Sebastian, For Two Thousand Years (trans. Philip Ó Ceallaigh)

“ your belly the sun, sun in the water, sun-water in the earthen jar, sunflower seed I planted in my chest….”

— Octavio Paz, from ‘A Tale of Two Gardens’, A Tale of Two Gardens

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“Honeysuckle, pink and creamy, Like thy honeyed hair and lashes, Like thy skin and lashes dreamy, Coral amber bloom that flashes;”

— Marc-André Raffalovich, excerpt from “Magic Hair” from Tuberose and Meadowseet (via sun-virgin)