May 2011
30 posts
Michiko Nogami (1946-1982)
Is she more apparent because she is not anymore forever? Is her whiteness more white because she was the color of pale honey? A smokestack making the sky more visible. A dead woman filling the whole world. Michiko said, “The roses you gave me kept me awake with the sound of their petals falling.”
— Jack Gilbert
April 2011
49 posts
“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing,...”
– Edgar Allan Poe (via bloodisthenewblackk)
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream...”
– Edgar Allan Poe (via bloodisthenewblackk)
since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you;
wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world
my blood approves, and kisses are a far better fate than wisdom lady i swear by all flowers. Don’t cry —the best gesture of my brain is less than your eyelids’ flutter which says
we are for eachother: then laugh, leaning back in my arms ...
“if I never see you again
I will always carry you
inside
outside
on my...”
– Charles Bukowski (via thebearjewess)
“When I look at my life and its secret colors, I feel like bursting into tears....”
– Albert Camus (via bloodisthenewblackk)
“I tie myself in knots
you come and shake me loose”
“…we die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of...”
– T. S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party (via oceanofmind)
softasapanda:
song for kelly huckaby, death cab...
