December 2011
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November 2011
1 post
September 2011
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August 2011
1 post
Dear Father,
So, this is love.
Father, am I still supposed to be alone? - With the cottage and the trees and the cats in my head?
Am I doing what your intentions are for me? - Here, again, is more company but company closer to you.
Lead me to the truth.
— Your Earthly Daughter
July 2011
2 posts
January 2011
1 post
Metal heart, you’re not hiding. Metal heart, you’re not worth a...
– Cat Power
December 2010
1 post
June 2010
2 posts
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for.
And...
– Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
February 2010
1 post
Company
I can’t help it.
Missing the days when I woke up to gray instead of the deep blue that I do now. My eyes won’t adjust. Feeling no warmth and somehow comforted by the constant cold, despite the sun, despite personable conversation. Missing the mornings when I woke up to stale silence and sandpaper air. Knowing that the cat at the foot of my bed held the most company and/or conversation...
January 2010
5 posts
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
– Voltaire, For and Against
he knows;
he's the only one who knows; her hands are cold and it's not just when the wind blows seems I have lost my whit…
my respect for everyone has gone away somewhere dark and strange today her arms curl around the empty air it's alright there's no one there
and as superfluous as it may seem she closes her sunken eyes and dreams a useless dream when she awakens to reality she won't remember a thing what...
Shadow
Many days I fell as though i have been subjected within the confines of an egg shell. My sister, with her strange but strangely understandable humor, would laugh at this statement simply because of the appearance of the word “egg”, yet the complete idea of this statement is less than comical to me. Within this shell, I am trapped in my archaic period of growth, breathing but not living...
We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With...
– Percy Bysshe Shelley
In the depths of winter, I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.
– Albert Camus
December 2009
5 posts
Worry, doubt, self-disgust, fear, and despair—-these bow the head and turn...
– Stanley Ullman
Laisse mon coeur vous abandonne
Depuis je suis encore jeune.”
Let my...
– Azure ray