February 2012
13 posts
'Sonnet' by Bill Knott
marveloustimes:
One of my favorite poems: “Sonnet” by Bill Knott.
The way the world is not astonished at you it doesn’t blink a leaf when we step from the house leads me to think that beauty is natural, unremarkable and not to be spoken of except in the course of things the course of singing and worksharing the course of squeezes and neighbors the course of you, tying back your...
“Many of the most deeply spiritual moments of my life haven’t happened just in my...”
– Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet (via thresca)
Juke Box Love Song | Langston Hughes
I could take the Harlem night and wrap it around you, Take the neon lights and make a crown, Take the Lenox Avenue busses, Taxis, subways, And for your love song tone their rumble down. Take Harlem’s heartbeat, Make a drumbeat, Put it on a record, let it whirl, And while we listen to it play, Dance with you till day— Dance with you, my sweet brown Harlem girl.
In Colombia, with coffee, as with cocaine
all the best shit leaves the country.
Movement Song by Audre Lorde →
youmightfindyourself:
I have studied the tight curls on the back of your neck
moving away from me
beyond anger or failure
your face in the evening schools of longing
through mornings of wish and ripen
we were always saying goodbye
in the blood in the bone over coffee
before dashing for elevators going
in opposite directions
without goodbyes.
Do not remember me as a bridge nor a roof
as the...
