#what the living do

[orpheuslament]

The Cold Outside, Marie Howe

#marie howe #poetry #words #what the living do #nr

[asoftepiloguemylove]

i don't invent, i don't yearn. i manage, i cope.

@jovialtorchlight / Margaret Atwood Half-Hanged Mary / unknown / unknown / Marie Howe What the Living Do / @/sweatermuppet3.0 (on instagram) / Tony Kushner Angels in America / Fernando Pessoa English Song; A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems

#feeling subhuman tonight #on loneliness #on sadness #on emotion #poetry #words #web weave #web weaving #quote #text #writing #margaret atwood #half hanged mary #marie howe #what the living do #tony kushner #angels in america #fernando pessoa #english song #a little larger than the entire universe #spilled thoughts #spilled poetry #dark academia poetry #dark academia quote #dark academia #spilled ink #poem

[derangedrhythms]

Marie Howe, What the Living Do; from 'Buying the Baby'

#marie howe #what the living do #buying the baby #poetry #excerpts #the holiness and horror of divine things

[woundgallery]

Marie Howe from What The Living Do 

#elegy #death #marie howe #poetry #grief #what the living do #luther #text

[petaltexturedskies]

Early summer evenings, (...) everything blooming, that darkening in the trees before the sky goes dark: the sweetness of the lilacs and the grass smell…

Marie Howe, from Rochester, New York, July 1989 in "What The Living Do: Poems"

#poetry #marie howe #what the living do #txt #summer

[aliasknives]

“only love and death will change all things” —khalil gibran

anne carson, grief lessons: four plays by euripides / william shakespeare, hamlet (I.ii) / gavin hamilton, achilles lamenting the death of patroclus (1763) / jacques-louis david, andromache mourning hector (1783), mary oliver, “the kitten” / phoebe waller-bridge, fleabag (dir. harry bradbeer) / marie howe, “one of the last days” in what the living do / sophocles, elektra trans. anne carson / maxim nikiforovich vorobiev, oak fractured by lightning (1842) / richard siken, “scheherazade”

#web weaving #poetry #literature #anne carson #richard siken #phoebe waller bridge #the iliad #hamlet #shakespeare #marie howe #what the living do #mary oliver #electra #elektra #greek mythology #grief poem #love #idk if this one is done yet #i may mess with it more and repost it #classics #ancient greece #ancient rome #mine

[haveyoureadthispoem-poll]

"I’ve been thinking: This is what the living do. And yesterday, hurrying along those / wobbly bricks in the Cambridge sidewalk, spilling my coffee down my wrist and sleeve, // I thought it again, and again later, when buying a hairbrush: This is it. / Parking. Slamming the car door shut in the cold. What you called that yearning."

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#closed polls #polls #poetry #poems #poetry polls #poets and writing #tumblr poetry #have you read this #what the living do #marie howe #lgbt #lgbt poetry

[loveisfounddeepbelow]

Orange

#my brain can only produce very simple heartfelt snapshots of life recently #🥲 #poetry #writing #my writing #original poem #my poem #poem #my poetry #original poetry #what the living do

[anouri]

Marie Howe, from What the Living Do: Poems (1999)

#the very act of my wanting it was an assurance that i would not get it #violent feelings are good so i have heard for your health #words #things left unsaid #marie howe #what the living do #is to cherish to destroy? #mine

[iwritewhatilike]

“that first summer I lay on the grass above it as if it were / a narrow bed, just my size, and—/ lying on the ground above my brother’s body like a log/ floating on lake water above its own shadow.”

“The Grave”, Marie Howe

#marie howe #poetry #reading #what the living do

[faerie-aurora]

"But there are moments, walking, when I catch a glimpse of myself in the window glass, say, the window of the corner video store, and I'm gripped by a cherishing so deep for my own blowing hair, chapped face, and unbuttoned coat that I'm speechless: I am living. I remember you."

-Marie Howe, from What the Living Do

#quote #literature #poem #poetry #marie howe #what the living do #self love #healing

[orpheuslament]

The Promise, Marie Howe

#marie howe #what the living do #words #poetry #nr

[arcanespillo]

"Pain"

What the living do

#poem #poems #what the living do #pain

[derangedrhythms]

Marie Howe, What the Living Do; from 'Prayer'

#marie howe #what the living do #prayer #poetry #excerpts #name #o

[woundgallery]

Marie Howe from What the Living Do

#marie howe #anything i've ever tried to keep by force i've lost #like a beast with his horn i have torn everyone who reached out to me #poetry #text #what the living do

[dumpsterfireofsubtext]

Bought my first book of the year after being on a self imposed book buying ban since Christmas. Feels good. (It’s poetry that my fav fan fic writer recommended so I’m ready to be slain)

#what the living do #Marie Howe #I’m excited :D #warrior nun fan fics what’s new #nothing #I’m too predictable #avatrice #warrior nun