calliopen

21 | leo | infp| she/they

"i only write when im falling in love or falling apart."

i have a bad habit of falling in love with strangers and an even worse habit of making them into poems

"I don’t know. Sometimes you get a line, a phrase, sometimes you’re crying, or it’s the curve of a chair that hurts you and you don’t know why, or sometimes you just want to write a poem, and you don’t know what it’s about. I will fool around on the typewriter. It might take me ten pages of nothing, of terrible writing, and then I’ll get a line, and I’ll think, “That’s what I mean!” What you’re doing is hunting for what you mean, what you’re trying to say. You don’t know when you start."

-anne sexton, "how does a poem come into being?"

i am a liminal space, existing to be passed through.

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