lifeinpoetry:

Sometimes I feel tenderly
opened up, wet and revealed as if cut
in two. I want to spend
today with you.

— Stephanie Burt, from “Rambutan,” We Are Mermaids

riverbird:

“Sometimes the call of a bird is so clear
it bruises my hands.”

Joanna Klink, from The Graves

“When birds look into houses, what impossible worlds they see.”

Don DeLillo, The Body Artist

“A bird is a vessel. It carries a field.”

Emily Skaja, from It’s Impossible to Keep White Moths

tenderfaery:

— mimi evangeline, here