Ch. Diana Barlow - Blog Posts

“i’m the beast / rattling the cage, asking for slaughter.”

— Franny Choi, from “Beg,” Soft Science  (via lifeinpoetry)

fatima aamer bilal, from we were put on this earth desperate, hungry and willing.

[text id: you get nervous when someone holds your hand, you wonder if they can feel the rot.]

Sometimes I do have desires that disgust me. But I have other problems

tanka #6, Tathev Simonyan

Wouldn’t you, if you could? Step out of your own story, to lean against a doorway of the Five & Dime, sipping your coffee, your life, somewhere far behind you, all its heat and toil nothing but a tale, resting in the hands of a stranger, the sidewalk ahead wet and glistening.

Danusha Laméris, from The Moons of August; “Fictional Characters”