mmgotta

Minnesota Missile turned Buffa-Lover. RN by trade; rhyme-slinger by necessity. Tell me a story.

[NS Ramnath @rmnth]

When you’re writing, you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
~ James Baldwin

[Enza Altieri @EnzaAltieri]

a birthday cake

Cuba, 1997
Abbās Attār

[Chocolate💋 @favoritel8dy]

Octavia Butler

[Ama_r @Paraguscolors]

Horiuchi Kazundo

[RobertAllenPoet @RobertAllenPoet]

Kenneth Rexroth

[Antigoni_ @indian_signals]

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[mmgotta @mmgotta]

“what we should have done instead of what we did.”

[buy Fenestration @Othuke__Umukoro]

—Mark Strand

[mmgotta @mmgotta]

On the table in my room, cigarettes, knife, notebook, 7 P.M.
I sit down to write so my head don't blow up. Perhaps you know my things,
my little song. Well, we got this far, now we're going to have to wait till the memories die off to start again.
-Anne Carson

[Wild at Heart @emmanu_elle_]

Kaoru Yamada

[matthew leger @lightumbreIla]

this might be my very favorite love poem?

I never saw light that way / again.

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

“The chaos looks beautiful when you're not in it.”