round up: 7/21
recommendations, quotations, tweets, & a poem
Happy Friday!
Here’s what I have for you today:
Housekeeping
What I’m reading
What I’m listening to
Quotes
Tweets
Housekeeping:
I have a poem out in Ninth Letter. You can read it here.
Also, I haven’t written a poem in a bit, but here are some lines to use soon:
What I’m reading:
Women, Chloe Caldwell
This Sapphic Theory About the Spice Girls’ Breakup Will Blow Your Mind
What I’m listening to:
The Bravest Conversation We’ve Had: Andrea Gibson (We Can Do Hard Things)
My Rajneesh, Sufjan Stevens
Once Upon A Poolside, The National
Quotations:
I am looking for a shortcut—something I could say that would effortlessly untangle the ball of yarn I am trying to untangle here on these pages.
-Chloe Caldwell
Isn’t it sad to talk about ex-lovers in the past tense as though they are dead?
-Chloe Caldwell
In my memory it happens quickly—everything of hers in everything of mine. Fingers and tongue. Her palms on my back, her hands in my hair, her breath in my ear saying babybabybaby.
-Chloe Caldwell
No, it was not what I needed. But maybe what I wanted.
-Chloe Caldwell
I always want to feel good and I never want to feel bad.
-Chloe Caldwell
She is always smaller in reality than she is in my head.
-Chloe Caldwell
I don’t think there are many weapons that are more dangerous than our wounds. And I think we live in a really wounded world.
-Andrea Gibson
Tweets:
Sigh.
Yeah!