The most brilliant part of you exists to haunt me:
Caitlin Bailey, Solve for Desire; from 'Pigeons'
pioneering something called "gritted teeth optimism" where everything is gonna turn out okay even if i have to bite and claw and gnash my way through it
Anonymous asked:
you are so articulate... for someone stuck in the Labyrinth
plenty of time to read in the labyrinth
Charles Bukowski, "beds, toilets, you and me—," from Love Is a Dog from Hell: poems, 1974-1977
“[…] you / are the quiet light of my soul”
— Marina Tsvetaeva, from ‘‘Poems for Blok’‘ in Selected Poems
The roses kept breathing in the dark.
Theodore Roethke, The Lost Son and Other Poems; from ‘The Lost Son’
— Vita Sackville-West, from “Solitude.”
I made it through April, May, June; it seemed I had outsmarted grief but pulled the hanged man card repeatedly—the self-same sorrow said a different way.
— Maya C. Popa, from “Signal”
Junya Watanabe 'Morality' Poem Black Jacket Spring/Summer 2010
Photography by Adrian L
Mary Szybist, Incarnadine; Invitation
Francesca and Janelle, 2021 - by Ellen Rogers (1983), English