SarahwildStar

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What are we becoming? Who are we?a continuous constant / of the permanence of change, / shedding and growing new cells,

@nat-lipstadt17

3d ago

Dead Sea Scrollsstanding in the middle of some vast, empty space—the kind of ocean or plain where you can see the edge of a dream in all directions / and it opens to you, and you let it in—womblike—everything around you is meaningful, whether it’s beautiful or horrible or sublime / it must be written above and left to fall as the wettest raindrop, tempting fate, and fate retaliated—again there was light, and again there was darkness, a new day

@Carlo-C-Gomez3

3d ago

The Sorrow FlowerLike Harsringar flowers, / my love never bloomed in daylight. / It quietly opened its petals

3d ago

The Poets PrayerO Muse, and your unseen breath that passes through me, / I call to you gods who listen only when silence is complete, / I come to you not as one certain of language,

3d ago

PerfectThere is no such thing as perfect / only the quiet agreement / between what breaks us

15

Apr 12

Shackles by nameThey speak of freedom / as though it were a bird— / something with wings,

79

Apr 12

FaceI have a face / but nowhere to place it. / The profile stays empty,

4

Apr 11

T0xicCorrupted currents pass between us, / an invisible contagion of atmosphere— / not every toxin climbs from fire and industry,

44

Apr 11

EverywordEngines climb to reckon / While still awake in drift / Fibers of command unravel

8

Apr 8

Quiet inside meI asked the quiet inside me, / Do you love yourself enough / to carry the weight of loving me?

20

Apr 8

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