ad infinitum;

forevermore. ♡

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Introduction, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry, Halsey

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Sylvia Plath, from a diary entry featured in The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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Ema Saikō, from a poem titled "Forbidding My Sister Sake," featured in Japanese Women Poets: An Anthology

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santa barbara, 2025 may

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Ōtomo no Sakanoue no Iratsume, from a poem titled "Envoi," featured in Japanese Women Poets: An Anthology

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Empress Jitō, from a poem titled "The Empress's Song," featured in Japanese Women Poets: An Anthology

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Ada Limón, , from a poem titled "Thirteen Feral Cats," featured in Startlement: New and Selected Poems

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Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Margaret Llewyn Davis, featured in The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf

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Izumi Shikibu, from a poem featured in Japanese Poetic Diaries; The Diary of Izumi Shikibu

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I Bet on Losing Dogs, Mitski, from Puberty 2, 2016

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Kasa no Iratsume, from a poem titled "Look at my keepsake and think of me," featured in Japanese Women Poets: An Anthology

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19th century mother-of-pearl gaming counter (for sale!)

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Sylvia Plath, from “The Eye-Mote” in The Colossus and Other Poems (originally published in 1960)

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Sylvia Plath, from a diary entry featured in The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

[clture]

the moon rises over the parthenon in athens, greece (2011)

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Roses (1843) by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (Austrian, 1793 – 1865), oil on panel, 48 cm (18.8 in) x 39 cm (15.3 in), Gartenpalais Liechtenstein, Vienna