February 2012
12 posts
apomakrysmenophobia
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. fear that your connections with people are ultimately shallow, that although your relationships feel congenial at the time, an audit of your life would produce an emotional safety deposit box of low-interest holdings and uninvested windfall profits, which will indicate you were never really at risk of joy, sacrifice or loss.
“When I said I wasn’t with another girl
the January after we fell in love for...”
– Jon Sands, A Working List of Things I Will Never Tell You
(via holdonmagnolia)
“The purest note
a poet strikes
comes always from a
bad piano.”
– Geoff Page, from “The Languages” (via the-final-sentence)
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January 2012
10 posts
“His fingers rest along the rim of night.”
– John Tranter, from “Guernica” (via the-final-sentence)
December 2011
3 posts
November 2011
12 posts
Miniature
forgetlings:
He dreams her heart through his, and ties a stopper to keep her from slipping away.
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“November — with uncanny witchery in its changed trees. With murky red sunsets...”
– The Blue Castle - L. M. Montgomery (via endofmarch)
October 2011
9 posts
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“Driving home a little lit last night
(God protects drunks and Irish girls,...”
– Moira Egan, excerpt from Questions Midway (via holdonmagnolia)
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September 2011
10 posts
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