I Believe That A Morning Should Never Describe A Day. Of Course, I Don’t Believe Mornings Listen To

To write is to cradle myth & memory both & emerge with the fact

of your flesh. I praise the first book that touched me because it was beautiful,

because it was written by a stranger born looking just a little like me & that made him beautiful, & in it

I find every person I’ve loved into godhood tunnelling through the page & beyond the echo

of those precious trees allowing breath: their shadows blurring into a wave, rich & urgent, to greet me.

— Natalie Wee, from “Self-Portrait as Pop Culture Reference,” Beast at Every Threshold

Women

"Women, they have minds, they have souls"

"the wholeness after everything toppled."

"I’m so sick of people saying love

is just all a woman is fit for."

"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as understood."

"And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself,

because I could find no language to express them in."

"The poets are always correct,"

"What an effort to keep alive."

"The Revolution will end with the perfection of happiness."

but.

"The stars in their courses"

"fight against us, my friend."

Cambridge, Nov 4 2017

To define is to limit, darling.

I never wish to be easily defined.

She read books like she ran into the woods, each tree consuming her slowly as she disappeared into the green.

"I want a boyfriend," no you want to pin a boy to a wall with a dagger to his throat, don't settle for less.

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PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK 1975 | dir. Peter Weir  

The feminine urge to mess up your whole sleep cycle to read books.