•The First Nocturne•

lifeinpoetry:

And isn’t that the most beautiful thing? To want to survive even your sleep?
Isn’t it terrible to know you must?
— Kayleb Rae Candrilli, from “I Imagine Juliet and Snow White Would Make a Beautiful Couple and I Would Watch Them Kiss Without a Question (Or, Being Awake Makes It Much Easier to Realize Yourself),” published in BOAAT

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sexetc:
“ dementedlollypop:
“Goals
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Sometimes gender identity changes throughout one’s life!
Read: A Crash Course in Gender & Gender Identity
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I want to be soft and what
is softer than the sky
before it breaks?

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Kayleb Rae Candrilli, from “When I transition will I lose my taste for the storm?” published in Pittsburgh Poetry Review (via lifeinpoetry)

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… rusted metal, blood wrapping around the head of a train, and I want to blame all sadness on the moon—it’s red meat dangling above us.

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Kayleb Rae Candrilli, from “Crescent Line #20 and the Blood Moon Is Still on Us” published in Beech Street Review (via lifeinpoetry)

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lifeinpoetry:

I am scared
of my partner
being face to face with my blood
because I love them.
— Kayleb Rae Candrilli, from “During my top surgery consultation, my partner says to the doctor, tell me what you will do to their veins,” published in Tinderbox

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lifeinpoetry:

If your hands weren’t still around my neck, I’d tell you what you already know, I could love you better sober.
— Kayleb Rae Candrilli, from “My Chest as Monsoon,” published in Nat. Brut

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Remember: A mouth feels like it has many teeth / only when it closes.

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Kayleb Rae Candrilli, from “Sinners must live with what their sins sow,” published in Grist (via lifeinpoetry)

best line i ever wrote, i think <3

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… the bottom line is I plan to rip myself apart.

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Kayleb Rae Candrilli, from “on wanting top surgery in the fascist regime,” A Portrait in Blues
(via lifeinpoetry)

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lifeinpoetry:

&
i’ve decided
my body is evil
and evilly religious
it climaxes in tongues
— Kayleb Rae Candrilli, from What Runs Over, published in The Wanderer

it’s so cool when my stuff makes rounds on tumblr <3 <3 le sigh

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lifeinpoetry:

There is nothing more powerful than my mouth
and who I choose to let live
there.
— Kayleb Rae Candrilli, from “A Limbo Moon In Love // You Will Fall In Limbo Love,” published in Sixth Finch

It’s me =]

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