It Lasts Forever And Then It's Over, Anne De Marcken

you have to stay alive. you're going to be such a beautiful middle aged freak. young freaks will see you in the street and know that things can be okay.

The beautiful thing as you get older is that you realize so many “rules” are made up and you can just do whatever. Posters can go anywhere in the house not just my room. I can sit down while cooking a meal or taking a shower. I can make the same thing for breakfast lunch dinner for a week straight. I can roam around the house shirtless. I can wear a dress with jeans. The world is my oyster key word my and I can live as I please embracing little things such as this

I twist like a sunflower at the sound of your voice.

— Kait Rokowski, from "The Civil Guillotine" in So Much For the Mercy Kill

“Shame thrives in silence, and wants more of it. The language of shame is silence. I wanted to incorporate silence, and silencing, into a poem, and was able to approximate that by blacking out language. What is unsaid becomes a visible absence—the hole I was writing around.”

— Leila Chatti, from an interview with Sneha Subramanian Kanta in Parentheses Journal, Issue 10 (via skgroutpoetry)

my mind is very beautiful and it’s going to take me very far.

Adam, Gboyega Odubanjo

Gustav Klimt, The Park, 1909

I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times, Taylor Byas

Natalie Díaz, from “Skin-Light”, Postcolonial Love Poem