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  • #1
    “there is no shame in emotion
    even the earth cries
    so its flowers can grow”
    Ellen Everett, I Saw You As A Flower: A Poetry Collection

  • #2
    “His arms surround me like a nice, yellow house. A warm house, a safe house, probably in the suburbs with a white picket fence. But your arms; they were a home. A home with an old soul (maybe a lake house in the fall) with a wood stove and kitchenette and a murphy bed imprinted with bodies shaped like ours. Granted, there were a few leaks here and there, and the wind got in at night, but I don’t remember ever feeling cold. My head wants the house, but no matter how I try, my heart just wants to go home. The heart wants what it wants”
    Emily Byrnes, Things I Learned in the Night

  • #3
    “You and I were sinew connected like muscle to bone.”
    Emily Byrnes, Things I Learned in the Night

  • #4
    “Humbly, like the tides that shape the earth but do not announce their changing; that’s how we should live. Humility”
    Emily Byrnes, Things I Learned in the Night

  • #5
    “I swallow you like bitter melon
    dipped in thick, syrupy honey
    indulging in your sweetness
    regretting the aftertaste.”
    Emily Byrnes, Swim

  • #6
    “You’re a little sad and that’s okay. You don’t have to be like the rest of them; dark stars shine too”
    Emily Byrnes, Swim

  • #7
    “I am afraid of losing loved ones and being alone in the dark but mostly I am afraid of being merely tolerated when I want so badly to be loved.”
    Emily Byrnes, Swim

  • #8
    “You have to understand that every day is a victory, and even if you do nothing but get out of bed -even if you don’t get out of bed- you are still worthy of the air in your lungs and the time this life is giving you. --Today is a victory”
    Emily Byrnes, Swim

  • #9
    “You’re a little sad and that’s okay. You don’t have to be like the rest of them; dark stars shine too --Dark star”
    Emily Byrnes, Swim

  • #10
    “I wish I had the ability to sleep so peacefully, easily, but I am among the few who remain awake with the owls -in the absence of the sun”
    Emily Curtis, in the absence of the sun

  • #11
    “Falling for you was like rereading my favorite book”
    Emily Curtis, in the absence of the sun

  • #12
    “It is a monstrous noise -silence”
    Emily Curtis, in the absence of the sun

  • #13
    “These words I write, why I decided to write them, none of it will matter”
    Emily Curtis, in the absence of the sun

  • #14
    “you can’t convince people to give you the love you deserve”
    Cherie Avritt, She Was The Storm

  • #15
    “it is okay to admit to yourself that you aren’t okay.”
    Cherie Avritt, She Was The Storm

  • #16
    AVA.
    “the woman is rain,
    and when she falls,
    she is a monsoon.
    to love her is to drown.”
    AVA., you are safe here.

  • #17
    AVA.
    “the opening,
    the breaking,
    the falling apart
    is always so quick.

    the hurting,
    the healing,
    the putting back together
    is always too long.”
    AVA., you are safe here.

  • #18
    AVA.
    “hold company with yourself so sacred
    that even when you are alone,
    you are whole.”
    AVA., you are safe here.

  • #19
    AVA.
    “you have outgrown this skin.
    stop trying to hold it in.
    stop trying to hold it together.

    let yourself break.”
    AVA., you are safe here.

  • #20
    AVA.
    “i took it off.
    i did not want to carry it with me anymore.”
    AVA., you are safe here.

  • #21
    AVA.
    “i over love.
    i under love.

    i am either a flood
    or i am nothing.”
    AVA., you are safe here.

  • #22
    AVA.
    “let the stars inside you breathe,
    before the darkness swallows them whole.

    let them burn through your skin and light this
    whole goddamn world on fire.”
    AVA., you are safe here.

  • #23
    AVA.
    “show me all the parts of you
    that you do not love
    so i know where to begin.”
    AVA., you are safe here.

  • #24
    AVA.
    “you wanted it all to make sense
    and you wanted the most complicated answer,
    but the answer is simple.
    just be.”
    AVA., you are safe here.

  • #25
    AVA.
    “i can't hold onto love.
    i'm not gentle enough.

    i always end up
    crushing the thing
    in between my fingertips.”
    AVA., you are safe here.

  • #26
    AVA.
    “do not let anyone in
    until they love you so fiercely,
    you have no defense against their love.”
    AVA., you are safe here.

  • #27
    AVA.
    “you are not the story
    they keep telling about you
    over and over again.

    you are not even the story
    you keep telling yourself.

    there are no lines
    that can hold you.

    there are not enough words
    for all the more that you are.”
    AVA., you are safe here.

  • #28
    AVA.
    “love is my thighs,
    this belly,
    my eyes.

    love is my speech,
    the search,
    my cry.

    love is myself in the mirror.
    i will see love every time.”
    AVA., you are safe here.

  • #29
    AVA.
    “you're going to love your way out of this.
    out of the hurt.
    out of the pain.

    you're going to love your way out of it
    and be free.”
    AVA., you are safe here.

  • #30
    AVA.
    “i can’t hold onto love. i’m not gentle enough. i always end up crushing the thing in between my fingertips.”
    AVA., you are safe here.



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