December 2011
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Dec. 25, 2011
I paint my fingernails white and wait for snow. Instead, the sun sets underneath two stars, a wash of pale blue and semi-transluscent clouds, feathers on water. The rooftops of our neighborhood are lined with tiny gold or colored bulbs; the bare trees in our front yard are heavy with blinking icicles. Two days ago, I uncoiled nine yards of green and silver tinsel and looped...
Dec. 23, 2011
One year ago today I wrote my resolutions on a blue sheet of paper, folded it twice and shut it inside a jewelry box. Winter solstice, hard light, iron pills — the darkest days are about to pass; I watch the shadows from this year lighten around the edges. Two nights ago, my car hit a patch of wild ice, and I spun out on four-lane bride, nearly smashing into a white pickup...
“It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood...”
– Søren Kierkegaard
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“Hear the song of the old trees, singing for you for the dark, Resting woods. So...”
– Autre Temps by Alcest.
“I wish I were a poet. I’ve never confessed that to anyone, and I’m confessing it...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via troubled)
“I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.”
– Thomas Carlyle (via graceunderpressure)
“One is never intrinsically strong, just by nature. You must have been through...”
– Alfred Döblin (via shootingstarsandfallingobjects)
“Your existence has made something of this world that it hadn’t the possibility...”
– Peter F. Neumeyer
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I am about to ingest a pile of unread books I hauled from my apartment all the way home to my childhood bed, the one facing east, the one with turquoise blankets and glass flower lights woven into the headboard. Haven: all nights here are safe.
The winter stars are out; the war has ended, my grandmother’s in the hospital after a fall on her oriental rug, fractures, vomiting when she was...
“I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change. I have...”
– Erica Jong (via creatingaquietmind)
“Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.”
– Hafiz (via saratraore)
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I want to brush your hair out of your face for one thousand mornings. Remember the night you asked for at least 100 kisses? I will let you ask for a lot, on the condition that you understand we are not permanent. Really, though, I want you to know that one day we will part, split off forever. And I want you to grab me as hard as you can in defiance. I want you to demand sixty thousand kisses...
“I don’t know where I end and the world begins. My best guess? Skin. It’s the...”
– Richard Siken, In conversation with poet Richard Siken, be prepared to bleed a little. (via leighway)
