#Olivia gatwood

[apoemaday]

What Sex Becomes

by Olivia Gatwood

I remember being a waitress on Valentine’s Day and loving the newness on a couple’s face,

how I watched, like the only patron at a matinee, as they shared everything they ate.

I would deliver their sundae with an extra cherry – the one she would slide into her mouth – a preview of what was to come.

I felt like a school teacher who goes home to no children, a cab driver without a car,

a therapist who cries in the middle of the night and can’t figure out why.

[asoftepiloguemylove]

YOU'VE ALWAYS BEEN MY DREAM // CHIRON AND KEVIN

Moonlight (2016) dir. Barry Jenkins // Moonlight (2016) dir. Barry Jenkins // Warsan Shire "Souvenir," Our Men Do Not Belong to Us // Anne Sexton A Self-Portrait in Letters // Olivia Gatwood "The Lover as a Cult," Life of the Party // Moonlight (2016) dir. Barry Jenkins // Anne Sexton "The Papa and Mama Dance," Complete Poems of Anne Sexton // Moonlight (2016) dir. Barry Jenkins // Terry Pratchett Good Omens // Richard Siken Crush // Louise Glück Departure // Moonlight (2016) dir. Barry Jenkins // Margaret Atwood The Door

[typewriter-worries]

It's National Poets Day, and to celebrate, I want to highlight some poems I adore as they're read by the poet that wrote them:

Maya Angelou reading Still I Rise

Mary Oliver reading Wild Geese

Olivia Gatwood reading Aileen Wuornos Takes a Lover Home

Danez Smith reading Alternate Heaven for Black Boys

Neil Hilborn reading OCD

Jack Gilbert reading Failing and Flying

Gwendolyn Brooks reading To the Young Who Want to Die

Ada Limón reading The Quiet Machine

José Olivarez reading Getting Ready to Say 'I Love You' to My Dad, It Rains

Natalie Diaz reading Post Colonial Love Poem

Hanif Abdurraqib reading When I Say That Loving Me Is Kind of Like Being a Chicago Bulls Fan

Marie Howe reading What the Living Do

[morepeachyogurt]

[sunny-rants]

Yellowjackets // When I Say That We Are All Teen Girls by Olivia Gatwood

[prizmpaws]

something about hands and love (a web weaving about a dnd npc)

[star-girlfriend]

An ode to the sapphic teenager experience of being helplessly in love with your best friend

unknown // florence + the machine how big, how blue, how beautiful // unknown // pinterest // @ka_waltz on twitter // nastya haiko & diana on instagram // olivia gatwood the lover as a cult, life of the party // katie found my first summer //the smiths back to the old house // sue zhao

[emiliefitch]

All photos are of Georgia O'Keefe's hands photographed by Alfred Stieglitz. Quotes in order: Ocean Vuong, Jean Paul Sarte (No Exit), Natalie Diaz (The Hand Has Twenty-Seven Bones—: These Hands If Not Gods), Olivia Gatwood ("The Lover As A Cult"), Richard Siken ("Boot Theory"), Sumita Chakraborty (Arrow)

[lillyli-74]

No one wants a half-remembered tragedy. You must know the width of the knife and how it ruined you, name the organs it kissed.

~Olivia Gatwood

[stavroginas]

— Olivia Gatwood, Life of the Party

[weusedtobegiants]

Every hobby I have I picked up from a man who I wanted to love me. I don’t know how to not become the people I bring home.

Olivia Gatwood, from Life of the Party

[oldwinesoul]

you came out screaming and alive and look at you now, look at how you've learned to hide your teeth.

// Olivia Gatwood, New American Best Friend

[asoftepiloguemylove]

MY ONE AND ONLY // ON LOVE THAT ISN'T ENOUGH

Madeline Miller The Song of Achilles // 呪術廻戦 Jujutsu Kaisen (2018-) wr. 芥見下々Gege Akutami // Adam Silvera They Both Die at the End // Lorde Ribs // Chris Abani Dog Woman // System of a Down Lonely Day // 呪術廻戦 Jujutsu Kaisen (2018-) wr. 芥見下々Gege Akutami // Catherynne M. Valente Deathless // 呪術廻戦 Jujutsu Kaisen (2018-) wr. 芥見下々Gege Akutami // Olivia Gatwood "The Lover as a Cult," Life of the Party // Sufjan Stevens Mystery of Love // @/perennials on ao3 (link to fic) // 呪術廻戦 Jujutsu Kaisen (2018-) wr. 芥見下々Gege Akutami // Azra T. (quote via @wedarkacademia)

[typewriter-worries]

Life of the Party, Olivia Gatwood

[imaginemirage]

I am afraid that outside of here, is just another here. I am afraid I will spend the rest of my life hoping to build myself in the vision of someone else. What am I, if not yours? What do I do with my hands when they are just hands?

Olivia Gatwood

[augment-techs]