nickyandmikey

god i love doomed romances because it’s like. “what is grief if not love persevering” but the grief and love are happening at the same time. how do you grieve something that’s still alive? how do you love something that has always been dead? and the answer is just. intensely.

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"I typically arrive three years too late. I wish I had been able to sit / in that white, aromatic kitchen and look you in the face / but I was not ready. I was still on my way. // (from Mikko Harvey's poem, 'Wind-Related Ripple in the Wheatfield,' published in Sixth Finch)"ALT
"YOUR CHILDHOOD DOG IS ALIVE. YOUR DEAD BEST FRIEND WANTS TO GET COFFEE. YOU HAVE BEEN KIND AND GOOD. THERE IS NOTHING CHASING YOU. YOU CAN SLEEP. WHAT DO YOU DO?"ALT
"24. You go on by doing the best you can. You go on by being generous. You go on by being true. You go on by offering comfort to others who can't go on. You go on by allowing the unbearable days to pass and allowing the pleasure in other days. You go on by finding a channel for your love and other for your rage."ALT
Background image of a post card. A border is printed around the edges in purple ink. There is a stamp in the top right corner of a woman's side profile. "MEMORIES COME IN WAVES" is written in black text. "(TONIGHT I'M DROWNING)" is written underneath in red text.ALT
"Do you have a question that can't be answered? / Do the stars frighten you by their heaviness / and their endless number? / Does it bother you, that mercy is so difficult to / understand?"ALT
"Know it's for the better / Know it's for the better / Know it's for the better / Know it for the better"ALT
" 'Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it - that is what you must do.' // - Fyodor Dostoyevsky"ALT
"standing quietly by the window still hungry for I don't know what. // -Marie Howe, from Magdalene Afterwards in 'Magdalene: Poems' "ALT

Mikko Harvey Wind-Related in the Wheatfield // Jonny Bolduc open question @jovialtorchlight // Cheryl Strayed Tiny Beautiful Things // @/mkpoet (instagram) // Mary Oliver Count the Roses // Phoebe Bridgers Waiting Room // Fyodor Dostoyevsky // Marie Howe Magdalene Afterwards; "Magdalene: Poems"

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