Wendy Cope, "From June To December: Summer Villanelle"

— Franz Kafka, from “The Castle.”

Charles Baudelaire, from Modern Poets of France: An Anthology; "A Passing Glance,"

Euripides, tr. by Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

jean-Jacques Bachelier

Mieko Kawakami, from 'Heaven'

“time passes differently in your arms.”

— Jay Vespertine

Anis Mojgani, In the Pockets of Small Gods

Georgia O'Keeffe and one of her Chows, posted today by the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

“When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.”

— Abraham Joshua Heschel