Ch: Messmer - Blog Posts

Shoutout to characters that are both genuinely deeply kind and also genuinely terrifying and willing to spill buckets worth of blood to get something done. And neither of these are an act, they're just both very true.

“Longer - my love, my light, my liberation from the loathsome eyesores of this foul life. Say ‘I love you’ longer. With one ever-unfolding, sweeping breath. Let me strangle out all of the sorrows of the world inside the lush texture of your tender oath. Again and again and again.”

— Helaena C Moon

“How remarkable, that all things light touches comes alive with color. Mine is the color of spilled blood.”

— Helaena C Moon

Alda Merini, tr. by Susan Stewart, from Love Lessons: Selected Poems of Alda Merini; “Roman Wedding”

[Text ID: “you will wound my flesh with your teeth, / you will settle into the fervor of my yearning / to choke its sense of urgency.”]