"There comes a day when the trees / refuse to let you pass / until you name them." (24, she/her)

firstfullmoon:

Two cigarette butts—
left by you

the first time you visited my apartment.
The next day

I found them, they were still there—

picking one up, I put my lips
where yours had been…

*

Our not-love is like a man running down
a mountain, who, if he dares to try to stop,

falls over—
my hand wanted to touch your hands

because we had hands.

— Frank Bidart, from “In the Western Night”

firstfullmoon:

INTERVIEWER: When I consider what a risk it must have been to write about homosexuality when you did…

BALDWIN: You’re talking about Giovanni’s Room. Yeah, that was rough. But I had to do it to clarify something for myself.

INTERVIEWER: What was that?

BALDWIN: Where I was in the world. I mean, what I’m made of. Anyway, Giovanni’s Room is not really about homosexuality. It’s the vehicle through which the book moves. Go Tell It on the Mountain, for example, is not about a church and Giovanni is not really about homosexuality. It’s about what happens to you if you’re afraid to love anybody. Which is more interesting than the question of homosexuality.

— James Baldwin, from an interview with The Village Voice

babyabstract:

si no tenemos hogar lo construimos juntes

https://instagram.com/p/CYkg8B5tILF

luthienne:

northwindow:

Franz Wright, from God’s Silence

[Text ID: The mask was gone now, burned away / (from inside) / by God’s gaze // There was no / I, there // was no he— / finally // there was no text, only / what the words stood for; / and then // what all things stand for.]

the-mid-80s-are-the-new-70s:

‘White Cup and Saucer’ by Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836 - 1904)

normal-horoscopes:

I HAVE NEVER LIKED THE IDEA OF SOUL MATES

IF MY LOVERS ARE MADE FOR ME BY THE WORLD I DO NOT WANT THEM FOR THE SAME REASON THAT THE WORLD MADE WHEAT BUT NOT BREAD MADE SOUND BUT NOT SONGS MADE MICHELANGELO BUT NOT HIS DAVID

I DEMAND THE LABOR OF LOVE SO THAT I MAY MAKE IT CRAFT SO THAT I MAY MAKE IT ART SO THAT I MAY MAKE IT MINE

tonguebreaks:

Himani Bannerji