Your arms flail up and down
make the sound water makes when it talks
and the deeper you go
the words hurt.But it’s your poem
you swim alone in.—Landis Everson, from “Thoughts of Hansel and Grethel” in Everything Preserved: Poems 1955-2005 (Graywolf Press, 2006)
May19
May19
A Poet Reflects: Look / maybe this is the place we’ve been / waiting for, maybe this...
Look / maybe this is the place we’ve been /
waiting for, maybe this place / is the day, inside us, inside each /
corpuscle, the day, that day, everyday is / inside, my body, your body,
everyday is / this thread, everyday you said, come / get me, everyday
you said, it’s been way too long / you…
May19
Profile study, c. 1944 (Erwin Blumenfeld)
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May19
Ali Michael in “Deep Lonely” photographed by Sofia Sanchez & Mauro Mongiello for Anew S/S 2013
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May19
(Source: peacecouldlastforeverandaday, via evesapples)
May19
May19
May19
“ Here is our circle. Dare not break
this cloister of our own making,
paper tent where no skins touch
in the white darkness. ”
this cloister of our own making,
paper tent where no skins touch
in the white darkness. ”



