#*excerpts

[malinaa]

Rivers Solomon, Model Home

[misspelledthoughts-archive]

i’m better off without you, but my heart doesn’t know the difference when i stretch the vowel in stop, or part my hair to the left or curve the letters i write like you did i’m better off without you, but once in a while i’ll feel the sting of your absence in your favorite song, and the love that remains will long for the friend you once were

[feral-ballad]

Joy Sullivan, from Instructions for Traveling West: Poems; “Instructions for Traveling West”

[secretsiwhispertothemoon]

Frida Kahlo, from a letter wr. c. November 1933, featured in The Letters of Frida Kahlo: Cartas Apasionadas

[shisasan]

Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus, originally published: 1977

[lilliesand-valleys]

[fairydrowning]

– Noor Unnahar, Instagram account "noor_unnahar"

[TEXT ID: / [Lemons] / My father's mother loved lemons. Years after her passing, / we run out of everything, but never / lemons. / Nothing else shelters grief / better than memory. / It's my father way of saying, / even in your absence, you will be / cared by me. / END ID]

[maryqos]

coco mellors, cleopatra and frankenstein.

[dionyrtal]

Vertigo Peaks by Dion Anja 2. Return II by Dean Gioia

[derangedrhythms]

Rebecca Perry, Beauty/Beauty; from 'Kintsugi 金継ぎ'

[fromdarzaitoleeza]

Miranda July, The First Bad Man

[malinaa]

Bianca Stone, “Other Wound,” What Is Otherwise Infinite

[wordedarchive]

It was April and she was the saddest thing under the sun.

Khush Bakht via wordedarchive

[feral-ballad]

Kim Addonizio, from Lucifer at the Starlite: Poems; “You Were”

[secretsiwhispertothemoon]

Bilal Al-Shams, Sacrifice

[shisasan]

Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus, originally published: 1977