i remind myself
each morning
my love for you
is buried
where my
peonies grow,
and when the winter
makes them wilt
is when i’ll
let you go.
but still,
i wish winter
away,
and water
the peonies
throughout
the day.
koko.poetry
“I would never tie you down, not even with garlands of roses. I don’t want anything from you that doesn’t come from your own impulse, like water from the springs.”— Dulce María Loynaz, tr. James O’Connor, Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems; “XLVI”
“Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling”
—Oscar Wilde
“my darling,
you will never be unloved by me
you are too well tangled in my soul”— Atticus
Simone de Beauvoir, from Letters to Sartre; September 7th, 1939
Text ID: I’m not thinking about the day when I’ll see you again, […] I don’t need to see you — I’m not separated from you, I’m still in the same world as you. […] I love you. You haven’t left me
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Mary Oliver, from “Moments.” [ID in alt text]
Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra