I want them to go on kissing, without fear. I want to watch them and not feel so abandoned by hands. Come home. Everything is begging you.
Ada Limón, It Begins With The Trees
The rain hovering over the city for days finally fell. You were arriving after years...
Garous Abdolmalekian, Meeting tr. Ahmed Nadalizadeh and Idra Novey
I was so pleased to be seen
- Heather Christle, The Crying Book
The world is slow to dissolve and leave us.
Matthea Harvey, Sad Little Breathing Machine
here's Love and Death in the same breath
Niall Williams, History of the Rain
Violence was all. The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went.
- Virginia Woolf, Orlando
'Come close to me, come closer. I promise it will be beautiful.'
Anaïs Nin, Henry and June
‘Agamemnon,’ Aeschylus (translated by Anne Carson)
Everything, in fact, was something else.
- Virginia Woolf, Orlando
since you were unable to take all the bad you were given learn now to fight with your nails for every inch of ground under your foot
Anna Czekanowicz, A Polish Mother tr. Regina Grol