Ariana

“I could use something a little stronger
waiting for you to call
& tell me
this is too your
dream this too
is your darkness.
claiming back
all that I owe
- the debt simply
dripping from
my 3rd eye -
I could use some-
thing a little
stronger
because even
after all this time
the sun never
said to the earth
you owe me.”
― Zara Joan Miller, Blue Monday

“when I stop
geographically
speaking we
don't speak
geographically
enough or - if this year
proves any -
thing it is
that I carry
your cough
in my lungs,
you exhale me”
― Zara Joan Miller, Blue Monday

“Tantalia' is the tale of a couple who decide to buy a little plant to keep as a symbol of the love that binds them. Too late, they realize that if the plant dies, the love that binds them will die too. And since the love that binds them is immense and they aren't willing to sacrifice it for anything, they decide to lose the plant amid a crowd of identical plants. Then comes the desolation, the tragedy of knowing that now they can never find it again.”
― Alejandro Zambra, Bonsai

“They seemed far closer than when their names had stood between myself and them like a clear barrier: so close that my fear of them and their fear of me became one same fear. And the attraction that many of us felt, the desire to smell one another’s smells, feel or rub or caress one another’s scales or skin or feathers or fur, taste one another’s blood or flesh, keep one another warm— that attraction was now all one with the fear, and the hunter could not be told from the hunted, nor the eater from the food.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, She Unnames Them