Lifediaryofann - Ann

Hieu Minh Nguyen, from This Way to The Sugar: Poems; "My First"

[Text ID: I won't tell you how I survived the wreckage. / This story doesn't leave the ocean floor.]

“Lesbos” by Sylvia Plath, from Winter Trees, originally published in 1971

“Soulmates aren’t just lovers.”

— Ryn Weaver

“It feels like rain. And it feels like the rain will feel like love.”

— Don Pomerantz, from “Looking for Love,” Tar River Review (vol. 59, no. 2, Spring 2020)

June Jordan, from Haruko/Love Poems; “Poem for my pretty man”

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“...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”

-Van Gogh

Being touristy in your own city is a different kind of happiness.

“If you inherently long for something, become it first. If you want gardens, become the gardener. If you want love, embody love. If you want mental stimulation, change the conversation. If you want peace, exude calmness. If you want to fill your world with artists, begin to paint. If you want to be valued, respect your own time. If you want to live ecstatically, find the ecstasy within yourself. This is how to draw it in, day by day, inch by inch.”

- Victoria Erickson

A city of ghosts

Lost from 2020