September 2009
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glass jar
03. We shared our dreams with each other, and yours would usually leave me with my own nightmares. You told me that once you had a dream that you cut me open and my ribs were ivory and my lungs were crystal and you’d chipped away at my bones and smashed my organs with your fist just to claim my heart, but in the end there had been nothing but a hollow mass of rotten black. I cried myself to sleep...
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“I prefer “you” in the plural, I want “you,”
you must come to me, all golden and...”
– John Ashbery, “A Blessing in Disguise” (via astroblemes)
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rejuvenate
(3rd person present singular rejuvenates, present participle rejuvenating, past and past participle rejuvenated)
transitive verb
1. make somebody young again: to make somebody become, feel, or appear young again
2. return something to original condition: to restore something to its condition when new, or make it more vigorous, dynamic, and effective
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20 ways - Eva Heisler
A woman sits up straight: she’s on edge. She leans into the cushions: she’s provocative. She leans over to another woman: she’s a gossip. She holds the other woman’s hand: she’s queer. She hold an apple in her hand: she’s a temptress. She slices the apple: she’s tame. She slices your heart out: she’s a bitch. She wear a heart at her throat:...
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in this world love has no colour— yet how deeply my body is stained by yours
Izumi Shikibu
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Even if I now saw you Only once, I would long for you Through worlds, Worlds. Izumi Shikibu (c.974)
petrichor - the scent of rain on dry earth.
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“built an airport in me so you can always come home.”
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11:11 - geoffrey nutter
Look- the moon is a perfect circle. A circle itself is perfect. Please don’t go behind the buildings yet again. I have watched you all evening. I have compared my life to yours and found mine lacking. You are leaving me. And you will never even know what it was. To see a sliver of your brilliance as you finally disappeared. I have touched the part of you that never felt me. I have...
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