Things are settling down, and my days are going by so quickly. This past week has been the best of my life. I've spent every day surrounded by people that think I'm nice and pretty and compliment my summer-dresses. Here is everything I've done, but this is more for me than anyone else ( Read more... )

"From now on, love,we will always be about to destroy each other, always about to touch."

• Orpheus and Eurydice
• Tristan and Isolde
• Romeo and Juliet
• Heathcliff and Catherine
• Lancelot and Guinevere

"You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves."

1. how anthills appear overnight
2. the skin behind knees
3. New York, New York 
4. if I were Richard Siken, I would not have cancelled my poetry reading