Forugh Farrokhzad, Tr. By Sholeh Wolpé, From “Let Us Believe In The Dawn Of The Cold Season”, Sin

I don’t know how to live in this world lightly.

Some memories I grip too tight,

Some crush my shoulders.

- This Anatomy of Melancholy #2 // L.H.Z

“My love is honey tongue. Dandelion wine in a pitcher. Thirsty love. My love licks it’s fingers before it has even fed. My love is peach juice dripping down the neck. Too much sugar love. Cavity love. Toothache, tummy ache love. Soft hands holding the jaw open love. Summer love. Sticky sweet, sticky sweat love. My love can’t ride a bike. My love walks everywhere. Wanders through the river. Feeds the fish, skips the stones. Barefoot love. My love stretches itself out on the grass, kisses a nectarine. My love is never waiting. My love is a traveller, a fruit-eater, a holder. My love is alive. Warm. It lives. It breathes.”

— Caitlyn Siehl, Warm after “Love, Gravity, and Other Forces” by Anita Ofokansi (via alonesomes)

                                   Everyone is a monster to someone.                             Since you are so convinced that I am yours,                                                       I will be it.

Federico García Lorca

“…the intoxicating spell of your presence,”

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

Strike me down. You’ve won. I’ve lived my whole wretched life at your mercy, yours alone, and God knows I deserve to die at your hand. You are my only friend. I am undone without you.

harrowhark nonagesimus and gideon nav

amal el-mohtar & max gladstone, this is how you lose the time war | hélène cixous, hyperdream | adolf hering, death and the maiden | paramore, all i wanted | tennessee williams, cat on a hot tin roof | lemony snicket, a series of unfortunate events | frank ocean, ivy | samantha shannon, the bone season | danez smith, acknowledgments

“Tell me, in storms, that you love me.”

— Julia de Burgos, from Song of the Simple Truth; “That You Love Me,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

Adonis, from “A Bridge of Tears”, Selected Poems

a study of hua cheng

station eleven— emily st. john mandel / planet of love— richard siken / long life— mary oliver / details from portrait of a lady on fire (2019) / work song— hozier / litany in which certain things are crossed out— richard siken / this is how you lose the time war— amal el-mortar and max gladstone / wild geese— mary oliver / details from l’ange dechu (the fallen angel)— alexandre cabanel / black telephone— richard siken

Der Astralmensch (The Astral Man), Sascha Schneider The Language of the Birds, Richard Siken