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My body needs it—the hot baths, the care, the soft water, the perfume, the warmth. I take on the colors of the flowers, the bloom, the delicacy. It becomes me.

Anaïs Nin

it's a seemingly uneventful day
there's a storm brewing inside my head

i hear the rustling of leaves, making their way to their end
they're doing a dance

i embrace the breeze

i hear the distant sound of the barbet
the sun tiptoes into the clouds
there's a storm coming

i lay my head to rest
the ants scurry on this bed of leaves
they're not pleased

i become one with the soil
i become one with the soil

What does it mean to be found in a dream ?

Reverie (2022)

‘Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?’

— Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

I'm the kind of person who when it comes to, say, something like language or just communicating on a daily basis, I feel like I'm trying to put an ocean through a straw

Björk
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no one will know the violence it took to become this gentle

the thing is, ellen bass
the thing is, ellen bass

it’s strange to be here. the mystery never leaves you

Alba
by Madeleine Cravens

After the accident, after the bad date,
the bad year, the bad song, the black-out,
after the six hundred nights of solitude,
in the weak hours of morning, in the long
moment of waking, as I turn toward
the window, this is when it happens.
Everyone with their lovers or in nature,
coming up to touch each other in the dawn
kitchen. My aloneness has a shape to it.
It has a name. It loves the open window.
It expands beyond the statues, past the plaza
and the gardens, the shuttered public library.
My aloneness is spectacular. It burns
like nothing I know. But there is a voice
on the other side of the water. There is a sound
held in the mouth. Light hits the plaza.
My aloneness is a golden horse.
It runs the sidewalk, flaming.

∆ Alba by Madeleine Cravens

ill just speak through a water carbonator and coffee grinder from now on

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