March 2011
9 posts
“What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly...”
– Sylvia Plath - The Journals of S.P. (via sallycantdance)
(via heshallfromtimetotime)
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Guilt
Your words are treacle. They slide lazily off your tongue and fall from your mouth onto the plastic countertop. I know I can’t let you drive me home tonight. You’re hungry and I am watching you eat. The world is in more fragments with every bite you take. I can’t seem to piece anything together. You’ve put me in a jar behind your glass eyes. You suck your air in and...
apoplectic apologies
and your lipstick sliced in half
used to write
elegy after elegy
with a blunt edge
on mirrors with sharp corners
his heart was ripe red
like the colour on your
lips with which
you kissed him good night
kissed him
good bye
the final time
the blooming flower
from your mouth
failed to spread far enough
to reach the contour of
his cupid’s bow
and his...
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At the heart of everything.
His problem was becoming too fixated on the details — like the pitch of the police sirens or the glasses they served the drinks in at the hotel restaurant on the third floor. And a few flights higher, where his imprints on the sheets became slowly permanent on the hotel bed that the maids made too many times, he memorized the colour of the curtains in all the houses he could see from his...
A Year In Photographs →
This is a link to my 365 project where I take one picture a day for a year! I’ve made it through 72 days successfully, and just wanted to ask all of you who haven’t had a chance to take a look yet to go and see the pictures I’ve been taking this year.
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“Is this not how it was supposed to be?” He leaves the question hanging in the air outside the movie theatre, and I don’t know what to tell him. I am trying to decide where to start. The night is like a cold, clammy hand placed along the nape of my neck, the boys from the bar are yelling something like nonsense into the street, and we are nowhere near the ocean. When I open my...
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The Confidante
In the winter months, the number of boys waiting outside the back doors of the girls’ dormitory building was significantly smaller than in the summertime. Still, there were those few eager, young lovers who would come to watch the clouds of their exhaled breath slip away from them and to tap their anxious feet to keep going the warmth of moving blood. I would watch one of them light a...
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How My Love Fell Asleep
Bullet holes or tranquilizer guns, it doesn’t matter which. They both leave the flesh pierced, and the wounded animal collapses in the clearing. It licks all the blood clean and tires from healing itself. I’ve seen it happen. The legs always go first — the life leaves them quickly and they lie like fallen twigs on the ground. The eyes grow heavy only near the end. They dribble...
