“The tempation
To take the precious things we have apart
To see how they work
Must be resisted for they never fit together again”
—Must I Paint You A Picture
June 2010
16 posts
“And I knew that in spite of all the roses and kisses and restaurant dinners a man showered on a woman before he married her, what he secretly wanted when the wedding service ended was for her to flatten out underneath his feet like Mrs Willard’s kitchen mat.”
—The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
“The heart needed to keep beating or else it wouldn’t power the rest. But blood rusts the cables like acid burns a leaf; the thing would rot from the inside out in a matter of days if he were not careful. The old man took a battered notebook, curled from sitting in his pocket, and laid it open on the table for reference.”
—http://aatmagazine.co.uk/?p=768
“Forcing the words is like forcing a baby from the womb; dangerous, unnatural. Deciding where to put the line breaks without the lines is like drawing a breath when you are dead.”
—Sam Jeffery
