The grass under my feet
is as thick and fragrant
as Your hair. I press
my nose against it, grab
handfuls and hold
it to my body. I love
that our skin soaks
the sun.
4 Things I Have been Doing Lately:
1. Writing about Lloyd, Mr. Eliot, and a No-Good Grizzling Sminks
2. Working on my postcards
3. Cleaning
4. Kissing on bridges
What [...]
Dear Adam,
Thank you for eating rømmegrøtt with me last weekend in Stoughton. It was nice to sit on the grass and nibble at that little cup of sweet buttery milk goo. I’ve never seen you not finish something so small and so delicious before. Did I ever tell you that Norwegian for butter is “smør”? [...]
Tonight and tomorrow morning I sit for hours and scribble and read, but tomorrow I will finish my last exam and it will be summer. After my exam, I will sit outside and eat fruit and bike and buy some books for the summer.
I want to read wonderful books this summer. I don’t [...]
O my request and hope,
My home, my very breath,
My faith,
My worldly fate,
Say to me, ‘I have rescued you.’
O my hearing and my sight,
Why do you keep me still
at such a distance?
Though You are hidden
To my eyes,
My heart percieves You
in the distance.
-al-Hallaj
Today I studied in a little room at Escape. It was warm and sticky and I was watching two men play chess out the corner of my eye. They were practicing plays from chess books and having good conversation that I ate up every morsel of. The one facing me was rather handsom. A sweet [...]
1. the smell of lilacs
2. wishing I hadn’t worn my jacket
3. dandelion wishes
4. school coming to an end
5. open windows
your turn. Go for it.
In Need of the Breath -Hafiz
My heart
Is an unset jewel
Upon the tender night
Yearning for its dear old friend
The Moon.
When the Nameless One debts again
Ten thousand facets of my being unfurl wings
And reveal such a radiance inside
I enter a realm divine-
I too begin to so sweetly cast light,
Like a lamp,
Through the streets of this [...]
Happy May, everyone.