whilom

drink down that gin and kerosene and come spit on bridges with me

i think it’s amazing how words written years ago can strike a chord in you nearly a century later. timeless fashion? timelessness is manifested in words. it can make you swoon, it can make you sigh or blubber like a fish.

dear rainer maria rilke, if you can see this from way up there, i think you are a genius (even if you have a feminine second name but hey who am i to say anything)

Interior Portrait

You don’t survive in me
because of memories;
nor are you mine because
of a lovely longing’s strength.

What does make you present
is the ardent detour
that a slow tenderness
traces in my blood.

I do not need
to see you appear;
being born sufficed for me
to lose you a little less.

a true genius