The wolf runs.
It runs three legged, like all damaged creatures, across the snow.
She thinks: this is true.
She thinks: this is a life.
She thinks: I do not want to die, but my life will always be like this—wounded and animal, lurching against white.

Lidia Yuknavitch, The Small Backs of Children (via moral-disorder)

upyrica:

The gates of Heaven are dripping with blood – when sacred oils are scarce, it is all you have. To match divinity gold is brought, precious wood, crimson silk; and yet, only time suffices, the rusted stains, the rage of wine, and sharing, and rapture, and abandon.