trying, and (sometimes) succeeding.

Stanley Kunitz, from a poem titled "Touch Me," featured in Passing Through: The Later Poems

Leaf zine! Words from candles by daughter

Black Jam, Matthew Haigh

recovering memories :')

— First Time, Long Time, Amy Silverberg

— Rachel McKibbons, Blud (2017)

It all just really confuses me

Carrie R. Moore, "Surfacing" from Make Your Way Home

magdalene: the addict by Marie Howe

Playgirl Advisor, 1977

"but there is something that happens when you are told you are too much. you begin to ask everyone, "how small would you like me?""

unpunishable - ethel cain / georgia o'keeffe

cardio room, young women’s christian association by karen solie / interview conducted through the man-eater's throat by george david clark / stay soft by mitski

They all move on by Ariee

Now, I am the child living through it, and I am the adult who knows better — an adult who could never do the unthinkable. And reliving it in all these simultaneous viewpoints is a heartbreak I can barely describe. It rips apart a soul in ways I wish I didn’t know.

You are not worth only as much as what you can do for others. You do not have value because you function. You have value because you exist in the world.