Jon Ware, I Am In Eskew

Frustration / longing / love

“…the intoxicating spell of your presence,”

— Edgar Allan Poe, from a letter to Sarah Helen Whitman featured in “The Last Letters,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

David Foster Wallace // Mary Oliver

Louisa May Alcott, from Little Women

alone with you in the ether by olivie blake

the maids, jean genet (trans. bernard frechtman) // elektra, sophokles (trans. anne carson).

Pedro Salinas, tr. by Ruth Katz Crispin, from Memory in My Hands: The Love Poetry of Pedro Salinas; “The voice I owe to you”

[Text ID: “and the longing / to love, to love you, more.”]

Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

IF THE MOON SMILED, SHE WOULD RESEMBLE YOU

Sylvia Plath // X // N. D. Wilson // e.e. cummings // X // Northern Downpour // Odysseus Elytis // X // Sylvia Plath // Nikita Gill // X // Margaret Atwood