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plainwater, anne carson
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Plainwater, Anne Carson
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helly is slow to trust, but loyal. helly can swim long distances.
severance (2022-) // plainwater: essays and poetry by anne carson
#severance#markhelly#markhelena#mark scout#helena eagan#severance spoilers#markhellyna#mark x helly#helly r#mark s#mark x helena#anne carson#plainwater#web weave#web weaving#parallels#poetry web weave#film web weave#helly riggs
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- Anne Carson - Plainwater
#words#poems and poetry#typography#literature#poems and quotes#quotes#poem#on life#on love#anne carson#plainwater
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I am not being trivial. Your separateness could kill you unless I take it from you as a sickness.
borderline personality disorder: an episode in parts by jody chan / the life of towns by anne carson
#og#webweave#words#jody chan#anne carson#plainwater#the life of towns#borderline personality disorder: an episode in parts#poetry
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Are you going to let your face distorted by warring desires pour down on us all through the meal or tidy yourself so we can at least enjoy our dessert?
Anne Carson, Short Talk On Sunday Dinner with Father, Plainwater
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My brother once showed me a piece of quartz that contained, he said, some trapped water older than all the seas in our world. He held it up to my ear. "Listen," he said, "life and no escape." ― Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
Writing Prompt: Write about life and no escape.
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Town Of My Farewell To You
Look what a thousand blue thousand white. Thousand blue thousand white thousand. Blue thousand white thousand blue thousand. White thousand blue wind today and two arms. Blowing down the road.
#poetry#Anne Carson#Canadian poetry#Plainwater#farewell#goodbye#blue and white#heartbreak#despair#down the road#leaving
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On Rain, from Plainwater by Anne Carson
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no one does it quite like Anne
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Excerpt from Plainwater by Anne Carson
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A dream dreamt in a dreaming world is not really a dream, but a dream not dreamt is.
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Black Sails // Treasure Island // The Anthropology of Water
#what can i even say. nothing.#silverflint#james flint#john silver#black sails#anne carson#treasure island#plainwater: essays and poetry#anthropology of water#mine
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"I suppose you do love me, in your way," I said to him one night close to dawn when we lay on the narrow bed. "And how else should I love you—in your way?" he asked. I am still thinking about that.
Anne Carson, from Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
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for bibliomancy: how do I get out of my own way?
Evening falls, the shape is still there. Fisherman gone, waiters whisking tablecloths on the terrace. What is it others know?
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currently reading list 6/29/2023
- The Dark Stuff: Selected Writings on Rock Music
- Weight of the Earth: The Tape Journals of David Wojnarowicz
- Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black: Collected Stories
#on the pile next up is pageboy + biography of x + plainwater#i want to reread autobiography of red sooo bad but i need to finish the things i am already reading first lol
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