one million words

If love is anything tangible, it is his mouth his mouth, his holy god damned mouth. He says my name and the whole sky is talking.

“Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never watched them dancing on a windy day.”

Poetry because I have control. Poetry because I could die, or want to die. And write myself back alive.

August senses Semptember in the deeper light of its afternoons—senses Autumn in the brown burn of the corn, the stripped tobacco—the faint singe appearing on the incomprehensible horizons—the tanned tiredness of gardens, the cooler, brisker breeze— above all the cool mysterious nights

“Marry your best friend. I do not say that lightly. Really, truly find the strongest, happiest friendship in the person you fall in love with. Someone who speaks highly of you. Someone you can laugh with. The kind of laughs that make your belly ache, and your nose snort. The embarrassing, earnest, healing kind of laughs. Wit is important. Life is too short not to love someone who lets you be a fool with them. Make sure they are somebody who lets you cry, too. Despair will come. Find someone that you want to be there with you through those times. Most importantly, marry the one that makes passion, love, and madness combine and course through you. A love that will never dilute - even when the waters get deep, and dark.”

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

Aries - If you wanted sympathy, you came to the wrong person. Root for yourself. Taurus - If it takes you roaming around lost cities for you to realize the only home you’re ever going to have is in your body, then do it. Gemini - Just find one voice inside your head that you can identify with and then let them do all the talking. Cancer - The closest thing you’ll get to holiness is finding your bliss. Stop putting your faith in something outside of yourself. Leo - Your light, energy, space, it’s all yours. Protect it. Invest it in those that deserve it. Virgo - I don’t think you can be truly okay until you learn how to be okay with being alone. You’re getting there. Libra - If you’re going to wear your heart on your sleeve, at least be brave with it. Scorpio - You’re a hurricane, a wildfire. You’re everything deadly and intoxicating. People risk their lives just to have an encounter with you. You’re something worth fighting wars for. Sagittarius - I think you need to spend some time finding yourself again. All I see is lost eyes. Capricorn - Stop running with scissors and then complaining when you get cut. Learn how to be safe with yourself. Aquarius - You were more beautiful than the super moon. The ocean, the wolves, they’re all listening for you. Pisces - I know you don’t like getting your hands dirty but I need you to bury those doubts in the ground and let something beautiful grow from them instead.

Have you ever been so melancholy, that you wanted to fit in the palm of your beloved’s hand? And lie there, for fortnights, or decades, or the length of time between stars? In complete silence?