“Why Is Love At Birth So Sweet And Then So Bitter? Is It Because It Caresses Us First To Devour Us

“The dawning daybreak strews its roses.”

— Théophile Gautier, from The Cloud; Enamels and Cameos: Poems (tr. by Norman Shapiro), 1852

the feeling you get when you hear the sound of dhak playing knowing that the Durga Puja is near >>>>>

✨️Two stars collide ✨️

Happy birthday to my love, the man, the sun, James.

I lov3 him so much

He has a big part of me

“I will […] forget her, and forget everything that is not here.”

— Mahmoud Darwish, from She Has Not Come; Almond Blossoms and Beyond (tr. by Mohammad Shaheen)

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