Fatima Aamer Bilal, From My Heart Has Claws.

I just needed one person, for once to mean what they say. Just one person.

Take me blindfolded to a field of sunflowers and you might see the happiest kid alive.

-Anneshwa ✨

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Jamil B. Holway, tr. by George Dimitri Selim, from Grape Leaves: A Century of Arab-American Poetry; “Throbbings”

Van Gogh And His Sunflowers by terry wei

Meet me on the bridge of glorified agony,

Afloat ; a floating incident between two grounds above water

Between a winsome arrival and a sorrowful departure.

Can we burn it, so that we don't have to cross the bridge?

Bridge will always be the metaphor for us.

It's a portal between two places,

And that's what we are.

Neither lovers, nor strangers.

- anneshwa

Don't turn someone warm & fuzzy into a cold mess.

musings on hands

— ocean vuong, yves pires, berenice abbott, jean-baptiste carpeaux, auguste rodin, james croak, gian lorenzo bernini, david altmejd, roland faunte

Meet me where the light greets dark

Where the lovers go when they are tired