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“In an attempt to delay the end, I delay the start by refusing to make any direct or immediate decisions.”

— Michelle MacLeod, “French Fries”

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“Three hours I lay awake, your shoulder kissing my shoulder. Three hours I stared at the window, loving you, then turned toward your ear and whispered that I had to go.”

— Andrea Gibson, “Ivy”

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“Watch me build an empire from the ashes of everything that tried to destroy me.”

— Blythe Baird, from If My Body Could Speak 

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“Can you believe that you, too, are someone’s altar? You are someone’s wildest dream.”

— Desireé Dallagiacomo, from Sink

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“When I want something with my whole being, and the universe withholds it from me, I hope the universe thinks to herself, ‘Silly girl. She thinks this is what she wants, but she does not understand how it will hurt.’”

— Blythe Baird, "If My Body Could Speak"

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“Good god, there isn’t a healthy body in the world that is stronger than a sick person’s spirit.”

— Andrea Gibson, from Lord of the Butterflies 

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From Andrea Gibson’s book, LORD OF THE BUTTERFLIES.

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“Male kindness is so alien to us we assume it is seduction every time.”

— Blythe Baird, from If My Body Could Speak

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With this hottie tonight 😍

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“I think the hardest people in the world to forgive are the people we once were.”

— Andrea Gibson, from Lord of the Butterflies

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One of the greatest hue-myns of the world ♥️♥️♥️♥️

Lord of the Butterflies is available for pre-order at https://buttonpoetry.com/product/lord-of-the-butterflies/

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I love these 10 cute motivational posts from chibird.

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Sometimes you get a line, a phrase, sometimes you’re crying, or it’s the curve of a chair that hurts you and you don’t know why, or sometimes you just want to write a poem, and you don’t know what it’s about. I will fool around on the typewriter. It might take me ten pages of nothing, of terrible writing, and then I’ll get a line, and I’ll think, “That’s what I mean!” What you’re doing is hunting for what you mean, what you’re trying to say. You don’t know when you start.

Anne Sexton, No Evil Star: Selected Essays, Interviews, and Prose (1985)