truei0ves-deactivated20210406:

LOVE, DESIRE, HURT, KNIVES, BLOOD.

Richard Siken / 红月 Red Moon (Detail) - Huang Guangjian / x / can’t we just leave the monster alive - TXT / ’Ariel’ by Aneleh, published in the tide rises, the tide falls journal / Yves Olade, from When Rome Falls; Bloodsport, 2017 / Jane Hirshfield, Assay Only Glimpsable for an Instant

liriostigre:

Eileen Myles, “Sleepless.” I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 1975 - 2014

heavensghost:

Ocean Vuong, from On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

ibvyache:

“I am trying to make myself digestible. I am trying to make myself easy to love.”

— I.B. Vyache, Conversations Over Sanguinaccio Dolce

lifeinpoetry:

“you have to burn the house of your trauma to the ground.”

— mud howard, from “ghoul,” published in Blue Mesa Review