springsorrowandwinterlight:

Almost-kiss moments are the best moments.

That endless, fleeting moment when eyes meet, noses graze and minds crash together, because in an almost-kiss moment, each knows exactly what both are thinking, but neither says so.

So how does it happen?

There’s only one requirement: eye contact. An…

girlvswhale:

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks…

girlvswhale:

All I wanted was to feel you under the pads of my fingers, to memorize the way your body moved when centered above mine. I wanted to swallow you whole so you could feel the heat of my insides, so you could wear me like armor, so you could learn how my blood and guts pulse and pump. I wanted to…

I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,

If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.

I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don’t mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated. I don’t mind being told to stand on my own feet, not to cling, be all that I am capable of doing, but I am going to be pursued, fucked, possessed by the will of a male at his time, his bidding.

Anais never ceases to amaze … I have to say

(via misschronicles)