Twenty-three years ago a cosmic collision gave birth to a child of the stars and somehow after siren songs we discovered the wonder of your body next to mine. We undress as your lips play snakes and ladders down my chest, and this is a miracle. I breathe summer into you, and this is a […]
x Read more xI’ve got post-Valentine’s hangover. Before I get married next week, I want to revisit all my past lovers for the last time and see how I got here before letting every single one go. So I wrote a response to Benedict Smith’s ”A Haiku For Every Girl I’ve Ever Slept With”. How do girls die […]
x Read more xYou say it’s poetic to fuck a poet? Alright, let’s give it a go then – You’re the boy who’s used to having girls being handed to you on a silver platter. You think it’s fun to have me eating out of the palm of your hand, well I think that’s funny coming from […]
x Read more xI convinced myself missing you was a blanket my tongue forgot to unfold so I could write poetry as proof I was capable of feeling. Loving you felt like Stations of the Cross. Missing you was a prayer I told myself to ease the fear of dying. I only slept on the church pews […]
x Read more xTheodore (played by Joaquin Phoenix) is a lonely, depressed man craving for intimacy in a world where people are more and more reliant on technology. We empathize with the alienation of this adorable, seemingly sweet nerd who wants nothing but someone to love. Simultaneously we guffaw at the ridiculousness of him falling in love […]
x Read more xThose of us in our twenties are under immense pressure to be grown up and make our parents proud. Today, however, the level of success is more and more being measured not by the satisfaction we feel or the goals we accomplish, but instead by the recognition we obtain from social media. And it’s not […]
x Read more xLet me just say it outright – the more a couple posts online about their relationship, the higher the chance that relationship will eventually fail. My theory is not going to be true in all cases. 7 billion people in the world and there is bound to be some head-over-heels lovers who enjoy detailing their […]
x Read more xDear Professor Snape, It’s been a shit week. First David Bowie and now? Sigh. How am I supposed to articulate my feelings when I literally just screamed FUCK YOU at my laptop after reading the news? I guess let’s start over like this – Dear Professor Snape, You don’t know me, but I know you. […]
x Read more xTo the first guy who looked at me in amazement – I’ve got a reputation for breaking boys with hearts born out of winter, but you, you – are my first dose of summer. You impressed me by remembering how I looked that night with fire caught between my lungs and by how much courage […]
x Read more xAt the end of each year we revel at the most wonderful messages we receive from you. We are deeply touched by the massiveness of love and inspiration that turned to our mailbox in 2015 and we are grateful and happy to share some of the most moving and emotional fan letters with our readers from […]
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Painting by Catrin Walz Stein
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