Hey. Could you post a link to your poems about anorexia? I love you(r...
Hello! I’m so glad you feel better now. :)Here are my poems about eating disorders:letter to an anorexic...
View Article"I could start fires with what I feel for you."
“I could start fires with what I feel for you.” - Fires, David Ramirez (via iamtough)
View Articleexcerpts from a failed past relationship
My sister tells me about her past boyfriendover peach smoothies in her hometown café,and how he once stole a human heart fromthe local anatomy lab, wrapped it in butcher paper,and express-mailed it to...
View Articleour attempts at love ended in failure
You measured your love for me in the numberof bobby pins I had, until one dayI cut all my hair off to start fresh,and I had no needfor them anymore.We always failed at love,no matter how many times we...
View ArticleI’m finally numb, so please don’t get me rescued.
I’m finally numb, so please don’t get me rescued.
View Article"If I didn’t think it’d make me appear crazy still, I’d apologize to you for...
“If I didn’t think it’d make me appear crazy still, I’d apologize to you for having been so crazy then.Reading the poems I had written about “us” resurrected all that nervous heat, reminded meof the...
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pederost: Louise Bourgeois I Had a Flashback of Something that...
pederost:Louise BourgeoisI Had a Flashback of Something that Never Existed, no. 28 of 34, from the fabric illustrated book, Ode à l’oubli. 2002
View Articlei wanted to open your heart like a text message once
You’ve just finished your cigarette and nowwe’re eating avocados with our bare handslike apples, your thigh across mine. This is howwe loved: like lethal injections or full moons,like the butterflies...
View Article"Our hearts beat so loud the neighbours think we’re fucking when I’m just...
“Our hearts beat so loud the neighbours think we’re fucking when I’m just trying to find the nerve to touch your face.” - Andrea Gibson, “Pansies” (via jadewootton)
View Article"The way we fall from each other like halves of an orange, skin dark as...
“The way we fall from each other like halves of an orange, skin dark as pottery in lamplight. I know it, naked in the light of the fridge, cold plummy resins in our mouths, warm sticky resins of our...
View Articledrunk dates over coffee
An old boyfriend invited me out for coffee today;I discovered he was a member of AAafter watching him squirt a few shots of vodkainto his raspberry frappuccino. My mother starteddrinking decaf after my...
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"I hate being so emotionally slutty. I need to stop loving everyone I have a...
“I hate being so emotionally slutty. I need to stop loving everyone I have a long conversation with.” - Sara Quin (via suiicune)
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the shipfitter's wife: EXIT-INTERVIEW
the shipfitter's wife: EXIT-INTERVIEW: fleurishes:I wish there could be an exit-interview for the end of a relationship, where I could take you to a little room in the apartment we bought together on a...
View Articlewe listen to thunderstorms as religiously as rock & roll
Last night you dreamt you pulled the moon from the skyand slid it into a waiting canoe, towed it down the riveruntil it stole out of sight;I’ve never seen someone who wears darkness so welllike a...
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l-ettie: this has been a long time coming. i’ve wanted, for a...
l-ettie:this has been a long time coming. i’ve wanted, for a long time, to draw something that visualizes what i feel when i read writingsforwinter’s poetry. for a while, i was trying to draw something...
View Articlehow to bury love and reclaim it again
In New York there were so many people holding hands, kissing each other like dying stars or constellations with red mouths swollen from blood oranges and morning sex in cold hotel beds. There were two...
View ArticleI've noticed that blood oranges come up quite a lot in your poetry. Is there...
There is really no major significance of blood oranges in my own life, but I do enjoy using fruit as symbols in my poetry.I guess you could say that blood oranges symbolize temptation and desire; they...
View Article(please don't delete your answer too fast, I'm in a different timezone...
Hello! I’m sending love to you in Europe. :)Hmm…I’ll just suggest a few of my favorite six-word stories that I’ve written. The final choice is yours, of course! (And no, at this point I’m not going to...
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