—Mary Oliver, The Sweetness of Dogs
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Sometimes I want to please my partner, not just as a sexual act, but as a casual act of love, to ease them bit by bit, to make them feel satisfied. Similar to how someone might go up to their partner and massage their shoulders, I want to walk behind my partner as they are working on a paper or a project, slip my hands down their pants, and pleasure them until their shoulders drop and are no longer bunched, until their face relaxes and their chest rises and falls gently, until they are no longer stressed out by the work in front of them.
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“Death became lovelier and lovelier and lovelier, even still. Death became a god, a goddess, a longing, a lost hope, a dream. Death, the flowers, blooming under my black bed.”
— Helaena C Moon
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Ignaz Joseph Pleyel (1757-1831) - Piano Trio in e-minor, Ben 435, I. Allegro. Performed by Trio 1790 on period instruments.
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Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
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Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
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Designs of Kyoto
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Etel Adnan, from “Untitled”, pub. Bomb Magazine
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Shunsui
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Matazo Kayama
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—Mary Jo Bang, Goodbye is Another Word for Not
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“I dipped my hands in the moon-blood;”
— Christine Lavant, tr. by Beth Bjorklund, from “Horror of Total Persecution,”
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— Mahmoud Darwish, Another Road in the Road
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“you wake up one morning with lonely fingers. so you draw a heart on every fingernail like a lover’s gentle caress a heart on the corner of your eyes like a lover’s gentle gaze a heart on the bow of your lips like a lover’s gentle kiss you’d carve a heart into your bones if you could, but no lover can reach deep enough, honey, and this is not how you learn to love yourself. let’s try it again. you wake up one morning and the air is cold. so you kiss the mirror trying to find warmth there. you kiss the mirror trying to remember what heat tastes like on your tongue what love feels like against your lips. you kiss the mirror but the glass is cold, honey, and this is not how you learn to love yourself. let’s try it again.”
— keep trying. keep trying. you’ll get there someday. ( j.p. ) || napowrimo #4
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excerpted from: Rebecca Solnit, "Slow Change Can Be Radical Change." January 11, 2024
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from "i know you by heart"
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