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The Next Queen of Heaven
Since possessing him is impossible, I want to love Willem without possessing him. I want to have him without holding him, or to hold him without having him, for better and for worse, for richer and for poorer, with our other partners and lovers and parents and children in two, till - till whenever ( Read more... ) -
Year of the Flood
"Part of me thought I would find Jimmy again at Martha Graham and he would say it was me he’d loved all along, and could we get back together, and I’d forgive him and everything would be wonderful, the way it had been at first. But the other part of me realized that the chances of that were nothing. Adam One used to say that people can believe two ( Read more... ) -
The Book Thief
I watched the contents of his soul for a moment and saw a black-painted boy calling the name Jesse Owens as he ran through an imaginary tape. I saw him hip-deep in some icy water, chasing a book, and I saw a boy lying in bed, imagining how a kiss would taste from his glorious next-door neighbor. He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It's ( Read more... ) -
A Severed Wasp
"If feminism means anything, it means that you're free to be a mother or a dancer, or both, whichever you choose."
-Madeleine L'Engle
A Severed Wasp
R.I.P.
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The Algebra of Infinite Justice.
Railing against the past will not heal us. History has happened. It's over and done with. All we can do is to change its course by encouraging what we love instead of destroying what we don't. There is beauty yet in this brutal, damaged world of ours. Hidden, fierce, immense. Beauty that is uniquely ours and beauty that we have received with grace ( Read more... ) -
Broken Verses
In all his poems, that is the one trope he always returns to: The absence of the Beloved is Hell, is imprisonment. And that absence fuels love until the prisoner becomes a conflagration of yearning. Sometimes the absent beloved is a woman, sometimes it is democracy, sometimes it is the dreams of youth. But always, always, separation is just a ( Read more... ) -
All the secrets you've been concealing.
Once upon a time...
Too many stories start with Once upon a time. Yet, it seems like the only logical way to start talking about something that is in the past. So ( Read more... ) -
I'm so happy
I'm so happy, I'm so happy! It's a sin to be so happy. He's all right, and he's all wrong. He's almost everything that I can hope for. Tonight I found out one reason why I shouldn't expect anything from him. Someone once told me that other people look out for things like star signs or religion. I look out for dialect. Either I'm fated to be with ( Read more... ) -
Evanescence - Snow White Queen
Stoplight lock the door
Don't look back
Undress in the dark
And hide from you
All of you
You'll never know the way your words have haunted me
I can't believe you'd ask these things of me
You don't know me
Now or ever
You belong to me, my snow white queenThere's nowhere to run, so let's just get it over ( Read more... ) -
You Don't Know Me.
Allow me to share one simple and very frightening truth with you: your real enemy is someone who knows you. And the better they know you, and the closer they are to you, the greater is their capacity to do you harm. Total strangers who get a litte angry and lose control at sporting events are no real threat, if the proper caution is used. ( Read more... )