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“Here are the gestures of my hands. Wear them in your hair.”

What good does it do to lie all day in the sun
loving what is easy? It never grew easy.

I thought of a dozen things to do but rejected them all in favor of fretting about you…their secrets, though they were lost on me....

The potted geraniums on the porch hung limp in the blaze of noon. I could not stir to water them. If you had turned into the drive just then, even with cheerful news, I doubt I could have heard what you had to say.

“You won't find anyone willing to give away their money, but everyone is eager to give away pieces of their life to others. People jealously protect their wealth from being wasted, but when it comes to wasting time, they are incredibly careless with the one thing they should be most careful about.”

Excerpt From
Seneca, on the Shortness of Life

when my love took my temperature and it read 103 i pranced around the house, the happiest she’d seen me in two years—high on the news that i had something that would go away

“life attracts life”

“I was an ice baby. I turned to sky blue. My tears became two glass beads. My mouth stiffened into a dumb, howl. They say it was a dream but I remember that hardening…”

"I wear silk-the cover to uncover-because silk is what I want you to think of. But I dislike the cloth. It is too stern"...the blood runs underground yet brings forth a tower.