May 2009
funeralface:
Music For a Found Harmonium -...
“There was a great tenderness to the sadness
when I would go there. She knew how...”
– “Trying to Have Something Left Over” by Jack Gilbert (via aclockwithouthands)
“After the fourth or fifth hospitalization, I remember just lying in bed for...”
– Sarah Manguso
Myfanwy by John Betjeman
Kind o’er the kinderbank leans my Myfanwy, White o’er the playpen the sheen of her dress, Fresh from the bathroom and soft in the nursery Soap scented fingers I long to caress. Were you a prefect and head of your dormit’ry? Were you a hockey girl, tennis or gym? Who was your favourite? Who had a crush on you? Which were the baths where they taught you to swim? … Golden the light on the...
saying your names | richard siken
chemical names, bird names, names of fire and flight and snow, baby names, paint names, delicate names like bones in the body, rumplestiltskin names that are always changing, names that no one’s ever able to figure out. names of spells and names of hexes, names cursed quietly under the breath, or called out loudly to fill the yard, calling you inside again, calling you home. nicknames and pet...
“It’s fun opening my eyes seeing you. Wouldn’t it be marvelous if every time I...”
– A dreamy line Leslie Howard says in Smilin’ Through (1932) (via aclockwithouthands)
“The zebra’s stripes are lacking hues,
so they don’t compare to...”
– An Ode To Tigers, by Hobbes (Bill Watterson)
“I must confess that I do throw dinner parties. They are generally the kind of...”
– Laura Barton
Fleetwood Mac - Albatross
Watchaclockwithouthands: this video has filled my dreams for the past several weeks
This is incredibly beautiful.
Dawn Weiner: Do you think about girls?
Mark Weiner: Are you kidding? I want to get into a good school.
aclockwithouthands:
I DON’T WANT TO SET THE WORLD...
“I am so busy keeping my head above water that I scarcely know who I am, much...”
– The Journals of Sylvia Plath (via unsolvedmysteries)
“For Jack Gilbert
It was like being alive twice”
– Linda Gregg’s “Too Bright to See” (via aclockwithouthands)
intomyown:sometimesagreatnotion:
Starálfur -...
Guys, you know, you better watch out, some girls...
There's no such thing as too much frosting.
“The politics of music is universal.”
– Brad McGann 