One Week
2009 September 23
You’ve returned to my daydreams.
I am distracted by body parts—
shoulders, hands, neck—
your shell.
One silent week
in Bora Bora is all I desire—
walking unfamiliar beaches,
you in your mirrored sunglasses,
me wearing
my insides out.
from → Anne Heraghty, Poetry
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RSS Feed Email UpdatesOh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words but to pour them all out, just as it is, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keeping what is worth keeping, and then, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
— George Eliot
Copyright 2010 J. Scott Mosel

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