Sake & Strange Divine

“I am astonished, as I draw the veil off things with words, how much, how infinitely more than I can say, I have observed.”

“I must speak to the dark.”

“There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.”

depression is a house of teeth it will write you into a story without rest it will kin you comb your mouth into a haunting name it a vacant wilderness

I desire, Occasionally, some backtalk From the mute sky,

I hope you devour the men who try to turn you into their punching bag.

This is what most girls are taught—that we should be slender and small. We should not take up space. We should be seen and not heard, and if we are seen, we should be pleasing to men, acceptable to society. And most women know this, that we are supposed to disappear, but it’s something that needs to be said, loudly, over and over again, so that we can resist surrendering to what is expected of us.