January 2010
47 posts
Variations on the Word Love
This is a word we use to plug holes with. It’s the right size for those warm blanks in speech, for those red heart-
shaped vacancies on the page that look nothing like real hearts. Add lace and you can sell it. We insert it also in the one empty space on the printed form that comes with no instructions.
There are whole magazines with not much in them
but the...
i want to pick you apart, strip you down to the bone and stare at what remains. the truth is supposed to lie there at the core, shriveled up and pathetic like that. it’s never anything gallant. the truth is full of squalor and has been precariously wrecked like the junkyards you see in movies. it is bleached out and blind from centuries of dwelling in the dark place you’ve caged it....
I wish I came up with this... →
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The 100 Most Beautiful Words in English.
readersquill:
Ailurophile A cat-lover. Assemblage A gathering. Becoming Attractive. Beleaguer To exhaust with attacks. Brood To think alone. Bucolic In a lovely rural setting. Bungalow A small, cozy cottage. Chatoyant Like a cat’s eye. Comely Attractive. Conflate To blend together. Cynosure A focal point of admiration. Dalliance A brief love affair. Demesne Dominion, territory. Demure Shy and...
“Let me tell you a few things about regret…There is no end to it. You...”
lately- the helio sequence
book lovers never go to bed alone →
readersquill:
I hope my home looks like some of these places in the future.
dreamy
i used to love secrets. i relished the thought of believing that there were details in my fabric that differentiated me from everyone encompassing the earth. even if it was as insignificant as a white lie to my mother when she inquired my evening plans, accidentally hitting that volvo in the Lawrence general parking and driving away, it comforted me to know that my experiences were my own. i...
Three days late, but here goes
two thousand and nine-
the christening of cheyenne, family bingo with my other family, stretch, claire de lune, doubt in my faith, doubt in relationships, doubt in appearance, sixty minutes, ambivalence, reveling too much in reaction papers for lit, comfort in conflict, simply by the book, acceptance, acceptance, acceptance, acceptance, acceptance, acceptance,...
