musée

Category: impressionist

give your daughters names that begin with vowels, names that start softly, a window cracked open, a palm unfilled, sighable after too long days – but give your daughters names that end in consonants, names that demand completion, stubbornly refusing to trail off, unwavering, strong, constant.

Jan-04-24

daughters, love, names, poem, poetry, quote
haikyou ii.

so many lessons
learned all while sure you’d never
teach me a damn thing

Dec-01-23

haiku, love, poem, poetry, quote
teach me all the best ways to do right by you, endure the way my interpretation will always be imperfect, forgive when i forget you’ve taught me lessons of you altogether, insist on this grace from me and with all.

Oct-23-23

forgiveness, friendship, love, poem, poetry, quote
haikyou.

evening primroses
close each night, betray themselves,
as i did for you

Oct-18-23

haiku, love, poem, poetry, quote
mercy:

v. bitterness powdered and pressed into black obsidian; an outstretched hand, helping another step off the gallows; to vindicate.

Oct-16-23

gallows, mercy, poem, poetry, quote, re:definition
fold a single paper crane, snap a rainshower of polaroids, press them into the palms of strangers; give away wishes to those who just may need one, explaining ‘here – it’s worth a thousand.’

Oct-07-23

friendship, love, one thousand paper cranes, poem, poetry, polaroid, quote, wish
humanity:

interj. the ability to watch oneself purposefully begin what we know must worsen before it betters; a choice against our immediate interests, stark against the shadow of Nature (used especially when looking down at the odds and laughing)

Sep-24-23

definition, humanity, poetry, quote
fruit by our supporters but soil from the soilers, dirt from those who try to dirty us; sink them into our roots, mineralized and hard and necessary for growth – everything but the poison they set out to be.

Sep-15-23

poetry, quote