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I'm Kristen Gray.
I write stuff. Sometimes it's funny. Sometimes it's not so funny.

Exile

wwnorton:

My hands have not touched pleasure since your hands, —
No, — nor my lips freed laughter since ‘farewell’,
And with the day, distance again expands
Voiceless between us, as an uncoiled shell.

Yet, love endures, though starving and alone.
A dove’s wings clung about my heart each night
With surging gentleness, and the blue stone
Set in the tryst-ring has but worn more bright.

-Hart Crane

Goodbye, goodbye!
There was so much to love, I could not love it all;
I could not love it enough.

Louise Bogan, in The Blue Estuaries: Poems (1923-1968), with thanks to journalofanobody (via growing-orbits)

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