February 2012
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Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy
Not a red rose or a satin heart. I give you an onion. It is a moon wrapped in brown paper. It promises light like the careful undressing of love. Here. It will blind you with tears like a lover. It will make your reflection a wobbling photo of grief. I am trying to be truthful. Not a cute card or a kissogram. I give you an onion. Its fierce kiss will stay on your lips, possessive and faithful...
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You are always eighteen or married
or both, carrying inside you
a surgeon or a...
– “On Being Asked Who The You Is In My Poems,” Paul Guest (via clavicola)
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I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect....
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via kittykatkate)
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Sometimes words are not enough.*
– Lemony Snicket (via breadymercury)
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