December 2011
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i miss you i hope it never rains where you are expect to remind you of the way i looked hair plastered to my face eyelashes stuck together laughing because thunderstorms across the prairies were so much bigger than anything we could have ever imagined when we were small, faces pressed against the glass wanting to be surrounded by it and now we were there together aching for something a storm was...
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you’re the only one who i’d let rest their arm around my crooked shoulders my hands a little too thin to stop the shaking your breath the only way i’ll make it home tonight. tangerine, you called me tangerine you won’t always be so sad come out of yourself we’ll smoke another cigarette.
dear ex boyfriend
it had been two months and eight days since you said goodbye. so the text at 1:29am to wish me a belated happy christmas is both aggravating and heart breaking. either love me, or let me learn to stop loving you in peace.
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hello tuesday you’re always back for more you caught me with my breasts extra creamy and my thighs extra pasty and my self esteem no where to be seen. the countless cups of tea the bit of fussing in the mirror, i’m back with my cheek against a wall and wanting
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sometimes i need more than just a pair of arms wrapped around me. sometimes i want the whole damn world on a string
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Winter Reading List Update
Bag of Bones - Stephen King
The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman
Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
He Drown She In The Sea - Shani Mootoo
Devil In A Blue Dress - Walter Mosley
The Glass Palace - Amitav Ghosh
Animal’s People - Indra Sinha
The Moving Finger - Agatha Christie
A Room With A View - E.M. Forster
The Perks of Being a Wallflower -Stephen...
please,
please, all i want is it to snow a foot or two before christmas. please?
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and while we’re on the subject i was never much of one for goodbyes i would never be able to find the time for them the time to clear someone out of my life and my heart even after they left. i hold myself at night and tell myself it takes two to make it work and fantasies can’t tuck you in but goodbye isn’t an option today
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i was never one to ask the hows and whys of love. i just let it swallow me whole.
have i ever mentioned how much i hate clubs? i hate clubs. so why my friends insist on having their birthday get togethers at clubs and bars, i have no idea. we’re nineteen, and maybe i’m being an old lady about this, but i outgrew clubs after i went to two. really now. too much effort is required to get ready. there’s always those awkward girls there in bras, panties, and go go...
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it’s when you realize that you’re not in this alone that you can do this alone
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ellielamothe:
Violence Against Women Is a Global Pandemic
cultureofresistance:
Violence against women is a global pandemic? Like H1N1? Like in Contagion? No way. Think of your instinctive response to the idea of a worldwide bio-terror — that’s what your response should be to the normalized level of violence against women around the world. Because, here’s the thing: women are not a special...
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in-time-of-daffodils asked: if you are asking for a few books: Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance is gorgeous. The unbearable lightness of being(kundera). poet in new york (lorca)
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ice clings to my hair- you always told me to dry it first but you know i’ve no patience to wait for life. ice clings to my hair, and i cling to you. we’re slipping but our feet are solid.
book recommendations go here
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“My point is that feminists are not biological determinists. Feminists are the...”
– ‘Feminists are Sexist’ - Features - The F-Word
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“Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world...”
– Thich Nat Hahn
To Do List for Tomorrow
Laundry
Clean Closet
Remove leftover reminders of last boyfriend
Finish Holiday Cards
Post Holiday Cards
Finish Ball of Yarn #1 on scarf #4
Sew end of scarf #3
Finish five more rows and sew end of scarf #2
Finish half of gift-project for Ee
Make Sugar Scrubs with Ee for chirstmas gifts
Bake a heck of a bunch of cookies
….. i will probably get none of this done.
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my friend lies awake in his brooklyn apartment he can hear the accents and the noise no matter where he goes now. (he tells me it’s become a part of him) he lies awake because i am curled asleep miles away and i am tugging at his ear lobe (a habit from a few years back now) he can hear my thoughts and dreams shifting and he finds himself stirring remembering how the prairie sky looked. (you...
not sure where the follower explosion came from. go away to the cabin for a weekend and gain twenty some odd followers. alrighty then, neato. drop a hello by my ask box, or ask for a christmas card! there’s still time before i send them all out ;) words to come tonight i hope. a couple stories i may share as well. ‘til then!
you ask if i can see a glimpse of something perfect from the view out my window. darling, i could find that in a concrete wall
leftover lover you come back to my bed tasting of ashes and water. (lukewarm like your hands have been not sharp and cold waking me up like i could get from the bathroom tap)
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clementinesmonsters replied to your post: Winter Reading List Update
How was Bag of Bones?
I’m not a huge Stephen King fan, but I really enjoyed this novel. I often have a problem getting into him at first. This time was different though. I would recommend it- especially to people who want to start reading him for the first time. I don’t scare easily by books, but there was...
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Winter Reading List Update
Bag of Bones - Stephen King
The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman (Still need to purchase)
Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins (Still need to purchase)
He Drown She In The Sea - Shani Mootoo
Devil In A Blue Dress - Walter Mosley
The Glass Palace - Amitav Ghosh
Animal’s People - Indra Sinha
The Moving Finger - Agatha Christie
A Room With A View - E.M....
i thinking cutting my hair short would be like finally admitting to myself that he is never coming back to me, that we will never spend another cold night curled up under covers- he loved running his fingers through my hair telling me i’m like Aphrodite in the sea- how she could hide all her naughty bits with something almost more sensual. i’m tired, it’s winter, and i...
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Listen
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Anonymous asked: how are you sick, little bird?
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saltwaterseas:
my skin keeps
falling apart,
and i keep
trying
to zip it back up,
stitch my shards
back together.
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just had a minor break down. it was silly really. i decided i really want to volunteer overseas (in a canadian equivalent of the peace corps) i’ve been playing with this in the back of my mind for a long time, and i finally decided to start looking into it. after finding a few programs i really loved and wanted to be a part of, i was starting to get really excited. finally, i can have a...
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“Don’t allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not.”
– Paulo Coelho
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erinsolari asked: Your poems are structured in a way that makes me think they are song lyrics. Are any of them songs? If not, would you be opposed to me writing a song with one/ some of them?
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tuesday, and your heart sang to me while your mouth was pressed firm against your teeth. you were afraid because you knew. but i was too young to wrap my fingers around how your heart called mine tangerine jumping bean little bird, little freckled love
don’t bother me about the moon tonight no more kisses on my neck, i just want to sleep
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in case you didn’t notice i miss the man who called me tangerine and never touched me out of place and knew me better than i could know anything.
tangerine, be quiet, be still there will always be love from men but when did you stop loving yourself? save ferocity for after sleep, now climb under the covers and i’ll sleep above the sheet.
working on holiday cards. drop your address in my ask box if you want one :)
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“The thing is, it’s patriarchy that says men are stupid and monolithic and...”
– On claiming to be a stupid man who doesn’t know anything « Zero at the Bone (via ellielamothe)
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Anonymous asked: I want to nibble on that bottom lip of yours.
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