My dog Squash has recently discovered the art of bone burying. Whenever I give her a bone she will spend a good hour or so looking for the perfect burying place. The order typically goes something like this: under the couch cushion, under the couch, under the kitchen broom, under the bedroom curtain, under the living room plant, behind the guitar, behind the suitcase, under the chair pillow, and then finally-always-she eventually decides to bury the bone under ME. Wherever I am sitting in the house, she will find me, jump up in the chair with me, and start burying the bone under one of my thighs. After that, every time, she jumps down, gives me a satisfied look, then falls asleep on the floor.
Lately I’ve been spending a good part of nearly every day thinking about love. Romantic love. The kind of love that involves french kissing and mix tapes and spooning in New York City in the summer when it’s by most people’s standards too disgustingly humid to spoon. The kind of love you wanna bring home to your grandma and say, “Grandma, look at this love! Just look at this LOVE!” Lately I’ve been thinking about who I want to love, and how I want to love, and why I want to love the way I want to love, and what I need to learn to love that way, and who I need to become to become the kind of love I want to be…….and when I break it all down, when I whittle it into a single breath, it essentially comes out like this: Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.
This is absolutely beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing this, Andrea. <3
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"Stay. There are snowflakes on my tongue I want to melt on your inner thigh."
— Andrea Gibson (via whooopsiedaisy)
(via whooopsiedaisy)
BONE BURYING
Andrea Gibson // I Sing the Body Electric, Especially When My Power’s Out
“the doctor who stitched me up asked me if i did it for attention.”
i luv her so much
(via arichantal)
"When they ask why we stayed together for so long
I say, “I don’t know”
I just know that we cried
at the exact same time in every movie
I know we blushed everyday for the first two years
I know I always stole the covers and she never woke me up"
— Andrea Gibson, ‘Prism’
(via actyourrage)
"If you were to press your heart close up against somebody else’s heart eventually your hearts will start beating at the same time. And two little babies in an incubator, their hearts will beat at the same time. Love that. So if you have somebody in your life that is prone to anxiety, like myself, and if you happen to be a calm person, you could come up and hug me heart to heart and my heart hopefully would slow to yours. And I just love that idea. Or maybe yours would speed up to mine. But either way, we’ll be there together."
— Andrea Gibson
"My mouth is a fire escape. The words coming out do not care that they are naked. There is something burning in here."
— Andrea Gibson (via ohandreagibson)
(via calebxblackwell)
"you were my favorite poem
and I’d read you every night
knowing I might never understand every word
but that’s okay
‘cause the lines of you were the closest thing to holy I’d ever heard"
— Andrea Gibson, “I Do” (via whooopsiedaisy)
"I suppose I love this life,
In spite of my clenched fist."
— Andrea Gibson (via seriouslycrucialmoment)
"I never needed more / than the stars on your skin to lead me home."
— Andrea Gibson, I Do
(via lakefruit)


