Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Margaret Atwood, from “Tricks With Mirrors”, Selected Poems, 1965-1975
My local wildlife shelter had one of their soft release raccoons manage to sneak over the fence and into the deer pen. Adorableness ensued.
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“Leisure, Hannah, Does Not Agree With You,” Hannah Gamble
Edvard Munch, Kiss by the Window, 1892 and The Kiss, 1897
Clayton Knight (American, 1891-1969, b. Rochester, NY, USA, d. Danbury, CT, USA) - House & Garden Small House Number, July, 1922, Cover Art
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love is a religion
Anne Sexton, Roberto Ferri, Terese Marie Mailhot, George Frederic Watts, Christopher Soto, Roberto Ferri, Elisabeth Hewer, Roberto Ferri, Sappho (attr.), Roberto Ferri, John Keats, Herbert Draper, Richard Siken, Denis Sarazhin, Katherine Philips, Franz von Stuck, Richard Siken, Gustav Vigeland, Richard Siken
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it's about the small acts of intimacy... forehead kisses, putting jewelry on you, rubbing your hand with their thumb, putting a jacket on you, touching your necklace, running your hands through their hair, wiping away their tears, peeling them an orange, un/zipping their dress, tying their shoelaces, holding hands, removing an eyelash from their cheek, washing their hair, putting an anklet on them, tucking their hair behind their ear, sorting out their collar, untangling their necklaces, drinking out of a cup in their hands
Rainer Maria Rilke, "The Prodigal Son." The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by Stephen Mitchell)
Rainer Maria Rilke, "The Prodigal Son." The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by Stephen Mitchell)
“I’m not too gone to be healed, am I? / I’m not too gone am I?”
— Alice Notley, from In the Pines