It's time for second chances.

Lisa Marie Basile, from “Light Magic for Dark Times,” published c. 2018

Aqua has finally become an active enough of muse of mine to the point I’m considering moving her to her own blog .

Salomé by Oscar Wilde (via crimsonkismet)

[Text ID: "You are alive, I whisper to myself, therefore something in you listens."]

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, from Notes on Grief

[Text ID: “There are days that walk through me / and I cannot hold them.”]

thoughts of a stray iii | m.a.w (via dvoyd)

Margaret Atwood, from “He shifts from east to west”, Power Politics

Catherine Abbey Hodges, from “Solstice on the Middle Fork,” Tar River Review (vol. 59, no. 2, Spring 2020)

Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Caitlin R. Kiernan, “The Drowning Girl.”  (via aegeane)

                                𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑰 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒅.

i keep thinking of this