Always hopeless, sometimes romantic

— richard siken

Maria Gray, from “Bad Nostalgia”

I take off my hands and I give them to you but you don’t want them, so I take them back and put them on the wrong way, the wrong wrists. The yard is dark, the tomatoes are next to the whitewashed wall, the book on the table is about Spain, the windows are painted shut. Tonight you’re thinking of cities under crowns of snow and I stare at you like I’m looking through a window, counting birds. You wanted happiness, I can’t blame you for that, and maybe a mouth sounds idiotic when it blathers on about joy but tell me you love this, tell me you’re not miserable. You do the math, you expect the trouble. The seaside town. The electric fence. Draw a circle with a piece of chalk. Imagine standing in a constant cone of light. Imagine surrender. Imagine being useless. A stone on the path means the tea’s not ready, a stone in the hand means somebody’s angry, the stone inside you still hasn’t hit bottom.

About wocwog HJ. I love him. He's so raw, and there's so much pain and rage.

Anne Sexton, from a letter featured in Anne Sexton; A Self-Portrait In Letters

Always always always thinking of this quote from Dear Senthuran by Akwaeke Emezi

i made a lot of mistakes

— (via foxeia)

milk and honey, Rupi Kaur // The Carnivorous Lamb, Agustín Gómez Arcos // Rien ne va plus, Margarita Karapanou // cardigan, Taylor Swift // Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant, Andrea Dworkin // @machineryangel // Untitled, Franz Wright // Motion Sickness, Phoebe Bridgers // Grave Digger, Matt Maeson // Desireé Dallagiacomo // Unknown // Deathless, Catherynne M. Valente // Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk // Pretty When You Cry, Lana Del Rey // my father's eyes, my mother's rage, Rose Brik // DNA, Lia Marie Johnson

”I Would Leave Me If I Could. A Collection of Poetry” - Halsey/Cop Car - Mitski/unknown/unknown/"The Burning" - Venetta Octavia/@6aint/Bite the Hand - Boygenius/unknown/unknown/Bite the Hand - Boygenius/unknown/Places I’ve Taken my Body: Essays - Molly McCully Brown/unknown/Cop Car - Mitski/unknown/Who's Afraid of Little Old Me? - Taylor Swift

Deaf Republic - Ilya Kaminsky // Still - Noah Kahan // Sun Bleached Flies - Ethel Cain // Their eyes were watching God - Zara Neale Hurston // The sacrificial lamb, Agnus Dei - Josefa de Óbidos // Love in the time of cholera - Gabriel García Márquez // Would've Could've Should've - Taylor Swift

it lingers for your whole life - katie maria/the sun is also a star - nicola yoon/the lost girls: a poetry collection on girlhood, grief, and growing up - lyra wren/crush - richard siken/unknown/on earth we're briefly gorgeous - ocean vuong/ @emmajadepaige/stick season - noah kahan/promises of gold - josé olivarez/matilda - harry styles/susan smith - wych elm/tangerine - nolune/#6 - aroara/right now - gracie abrams/love & a loaded gun - emily rose cole/someday I'll love - ocean vuong/ @parentless-suggestions/unknown/the burning - venetta octavia/you can love him but you can't keep him - @pencap/a poem from the adult daughter to the narcissistic mother: not your fault, not mine, just is - katherine fabrizio/courtney love prays to oregon - clementine von radics

— unknown

tumblr user @/divorcefemme // Anaïs Nin // tumblr user @/willowcrowned // Mitski, “I Don’t Smoke” // Lilith Kerr, "bite back" (from unloving the knife)

sources: ophelia, act IV, scene V // traci brimhall, dear eros // unknown // suzanne scanlone, promising young women // destiny, fieldplates gauntlets // camille rankine, emergency management // fatima aamer bilal, being unwanted is a language // unknown