Azra Tabassum's Blog, page 47
June 9, 2016
"When the plane went down in San Francisco,
I thought of my friend M. He’s obsessed with plane..."
I thought of my friend M. He’s obsessed with plane crashes.
He memorizes the wrecked metal details,
the clear cool skies cut by black scars of smoke.
Once, while driving, he told me about all the crashes:
The one in blue Kentucky, in yellow Iowa.
It was almost a year before I learned
his brother was a pilot.
I can’t help it,
I love the way men love.”
- Ada Limón, “Accident Report In The Tall, Tall Weeds,” from Bright Dead Things (via bostonpoetryslam)
"…But who were you kidding? You took him in
with no grand dreams of salvation, but only to ease
the..."
with no grand dreams of salvation, but only to ease
the guilt of never having tried…“”
- from How to Go to Dinner with a Brother on Drugs, Natalie Diaz, in When My Brother Was an Aztec (2012)
June 8, 2016
If this isn't too personal, what does being in love feel like?
It feels like cracking a pomegranate open with your bare hands. It is the rough skin of the fruit beneath your finger nails. It is the sweet stains all over your white dress. It is merciless. It is the only beautiful war.
7-weeks:
Hey, there are a ton of alternate universes where you and I never met each other, and I’m...
Hey, there are a ton of alternate universes where you and I never met each other, and I’m really glad I got to love you in this one.
azra I feel stupid messaging you but i have no one else to tell. after years of crumbling and terrifying debt I am finally on top of my finances and i am honestly so proud of how far i have come. i want to thank you because your poems and kind words have h
I’m so proud of you. Thank you for coming here and telling me about it, it makes me feel really warm and happy that you’re finally where you’re supposed to be. I wish you so much joy and I hope everything works out from here. Loads of love, A
azra I feel stupid messaging you but i have no one else to tell. after years of crumbling and terrifying debt I am finally on top of my finances and i am honestly so proud of how far i have come. i want to thank you because your poems and kind words have h
I’m so proud of you. Thank you for coming here and telling me about it, it makes me feel really warm and happy that you’re finally where you’re supposed to be. I wish you so much joy and I hope everything works out from here. Loads of love, A
azra I feel stupid messaging you but i have no one else to tell. after years of crumbling and terrifying debt I am finally on top of my finances and i am honestly so proud of how far i have come. i want to thank you because your poems and kind words have h
I’m so proud of you. Thank you for coming here and telling me about it, it makes me feel really warm and happy that you’re finally where you’re supposed to be. I wish you so much joy and I hope everything works out from here. Loads of love, A
June 7, 2016
pretty sure I wrote some epic poems in my sleep and now I’m awake I can’t remember a...
pretty sure I wrote some epic poems in my sleep and now I’m awake I can’t remember a single word
"I can’t even look at myself naked
while I change out of body into the poem."
while I change out of body into the poem.”
- Ana Božičević, from “A Poem for You,” Rise in the Fall
(via lifeinpoetry)
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