I mean surely we all grew up feeling like there was a wrongness inherently deep inside us that will endure for the rest of our lives
Weeping at this. Frighteningly similar to how I sound
third wheel or third arm or
You are strongly advised not to feed the ducks in this pond.
🌼 poems (and a love letter) that helped me live through july 🌼
One Or Two Things, Mary Oliver
Kitchen Song, Laura Kasischke
The Breathing, Denise Levertov
Trapped, Charles Bukowski
Precognition, Margaret Atwood
Rain, John Burnside
Looking, Walking, Being, Denise Levertov
At Joan's, Frank O'Hara
You, Carol Ann Duffy
Time, Louise Gluck
Effort at Speech Between Two People, Muriel Rukeyser
Still, A. R. Ammons
Sonnet XL, Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sonnet XLIII, Edna St. Vincent Millay
Listen, W. S. Merwin
A Thin Line, Ryuichi Tamura (translated by Samuel Grolmes and Yumiko Tsumura)
Driveway, Richard Siken
The Sentence, Anna Akhmatova
Wanting to Die, Anne Sexton
Eating Together, Kim Addonizio
The Look, Sara Teasdale
The Starry Night, Anne Sexton
Hammond B3 Organ Cistern, Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Richard Feynman's love letter to his deceased wife, 1946
👑⚔️ “I Pledge You My Kingdom” - Royalty Au, Arranged Marriage, True Love’s Kiss
🌸💐 “the impression of you” - Modern Au (Flower Shop & Tattoo), Trans Viktor, Fluff and Angst
🦋🧪 “In This New Skin” - Post Canon with Time Travel, Jinx & Viktor Friendship, Grief and Angst
🗡️🔮 “The Oathbreaker” - Knight Jayce x Mage Viktor, Fantasy
🦋⚙️ “restart/reset/renew” - Canon Divergence, White Hair Viktor, Hurt/Comfort
🏒⛸️ “All That Matters” - Hockey Au, Past Figure Skating Viktor x Hockey Player Jayce, Smut and Angst
🦋🌱 “From the First” - Post Canon, Fix It, Smut (Switching so if you don’t like it then don’t click)
⚙️🤖 “Artificial Humanity, Human Intelligence” - Canon Related, Android Jayce x Human Viktor, Romance, Smut
“never too late to be who you might have been” by sara yukiko mon | still from i saw the tv glow, “there is still time”
they were right btw. you have to dig yourself out of your grave over and over again
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