buttonpoetry:

“You girl, will survive, even when survival is sweat pants and the best of whatever is left in the fridge.”

— Amaris Diaz, “Shrapnel”

(via absentions)

sssaltfish:

broke n lonely tn

broke n lonely tn

kendryhills:

Eat her pussy like her ex is watching

(via xxwalkingonair)

prettypositivity:

be careful with how much you tolerate. you are teaching them how to treat you

(via queengaia)

she said she loved me

i’d been waiting

it wasn’t like that

lifeinpoetry:

“& it’s up to you to fill it, up to you to find something useful / to do with your sadness.”

— Hieu Minh Nguyen, from “Outbound,” published in Poetry

(Source: poetryfoundation.org)

lifeinpoetry:

This is the war I was born toward, her skin,

          its lake-glint.

— Natalie Diaz, from “Skin-Light,” published in Poem-a-Day

(Source: poets.org)