daughter of the moon

and what if I can’t calm down, and I don’t have that in my bloodline?

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

Isabel Allende ― The House of the Spirits

Leila Chatti, Night Lament in Hergla 

hearts in trees

Anne Sexton - From Small Wire

mourning jewelry, popularized during the victorian era"hair, considered to be a remnant of the person it was cut from, also has often played a part in myths and legends; in a swedish book of proverbs, one can read that 'rings and bracelets of hair increase love.'"

but in poetry we say: "I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything."

Tooth Fairies