brutal grace, divine compassion
ambedo n. a kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details—raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees leaning in the wind, clouds of cream swirling in your coffee—which leads to a dawning awareness of the haunting fragility of life
Good-night, sweet princess. You are still on your own; be stoic; don’t panic; get through this hell to the generous sweet overflowing giving love of spring.
Sylvia Plath · The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)
the world is so beautiful I can’t believe I forget sometimes
the only reason I own a queen-sized bed is to push my books to the other side of it and sleep next to them
“Lately, something has taken hold / of me—not hunger, not shame. It is like a flower / blooming in the injury.”— — Richie Hofmann, from “Blue Anther,” A Hundred Lovers
FRaU Magazine, November 2016





