Tag: words

lifeinpoetry:

Here
is a eulogy
for all parts in us that did not make it out alive.

Here
is the shrine we made from our traumas.

— Koleka Putuma, from “Twenty-One Ways of Leaving,” Collective Amnesia

violentwavesofemotion:

“Do not faint in September or you will wake up in a dead city.”

— Anne Sexton, from The Complete Poems; “The Sermon of the Twelve Acknowledgments,”