Try Again

If Beale Street Could Talk, James Baldwin

Ada Limón, from “The End of Poetry”, The Hurting Kind

Alice Notley, from In The Pines

Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

Richard Siken, from "Wishbone", Crush

Yes! Yes, please!!! Love me in my way! Love me in my way at least some of the time! And I’ll love you in yours too! I know your way comes easier to you but I’m not asking for all the time! Please please I want to be loved! I want to be loved in a way that feels right to me! I deserve to be loved! And so do you! So does everybody! I’m asking you to put in the effort to love me my way because you love me! You said you do! It’s not fair! It’s not fair it’s not fair! Sometimes your way is walking across coals but I’ll do it! I’ll do it I’ll do it I swear! I want to be loved so badly please please please! Love me in my way and I’ll love you in yours coals be damned! I love you I love you i love

Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

Richard Siken, from "Wishbone", Crush

Text ID: “Sometimes,” said Julia, “I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.”

taking my heart with me

Kate Cayley, Lent

-on alternate timelines and universes

everything everywhere all at once/ @inanotherunivrse/ complex- katie gregson-macleod/ @tiredbtw/ @loviely/ eternal sunshine of the spotless mind/ @death-born-aphrodite

on loving someone who has passed

a self portrait in letters by anne sexton / poem by louise glück / achilles and patroclus by @maieste / all about love by bell hooks / blue sun by nina mouawad / albert camus correspondance to maria casarès / un homme et une femme by stephan sinding / the gods show up by michael kinnucan / the chronology of water: a memoir by lidia yuknavitch

Animal Mask by The Mountain Goats // Julie Manet with the Cat by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

On grief and loss

1. Glennon Doyle Melton, Love Warrior/ 2. Andrew Garfield interview/ 3. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix/ 4. Jamie Anderson/ 5. Fleabag/ 6. Anne Carson, Glass, irony and god / 7. Brokeback Mountain/ 8. Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere/ 9. John Banville, The Sea/ 10. Wandavision

the months by linda pastan / apples and a glas by olena levchii

oranges (and clementines and tangerines) as vessels of love   

OCTOBER

l.m. montgomery, anne of avonlea / claude monet, autumn on the seine at argenteuil / carol bishop hipps / maryanne nguyen, …and i don’t know who i am anymore / sarah guillory, reclaimed / f. scott fitzgerald, the great gatsby / girl in red, we fell in love in october / jacqueline woodson, if you come softly / leon spilliaert, october evening / w.s. merwin, the love for october / richard o. moore, a reminiscence / when harry met sally (1989), dir. rob reiner / ray bradbury, long after midnight / ted kooser, a letter in october / victor charreton, la terrasse, automne / richard shelton, october / katherine blower / oamul lu / anne sexton, a self-portrait In letters

— Jeanette Winterson, “The Poetics of Sex” | The World and Other Places: Stories