last swan song.

swans stay silent until their death when they sing a single, hauntingly beautiful last song. xxvii. they/them.

[existential-celestial]

“Songs of continued years I sing.”

— Walt Whitman, “As Consequent, etc.,” in WHITMAN (The Laurel Poetry Series).

[nixscriptum]

[paper-wounds]

Fortesa Latifi, from The Truth About Grief.

[soracities]

Charles Wright, from "A Journal of the Year of the Ox", The World of Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990 [ID'd]

[weltenwellen]

Ambalila Hemsell, from "Party Poem"

[atoubaa]

A wedding in a refugee camp near Khartoum. (Sudan, 1995) - Pascal Maitre

[petaltexturedskies]

March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each followed by a frosty pink twilight which gradually lost itself in an elfland of moonshine.

L.M. Montgomery, Anne of The Island

[feral-ballad]

Tawanda Mulalu, from Please Make Me Pretty, I Don't Want to Die: Poems; “All we got was autumn. All we got was winter”

[kafk-a]

Nancy Willard, from “Questions My Son Asked Me, Answers I Never Gave Him”

[devilduck]

“My brother used to ask the birds to forgive him; that sounds senseless, but it is right; for all is like an ocean, all things flow and touch each other; a disturbance in one place is felt at the other end of the world…”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov.

[petaltexturedskies]

Emily Dickinson, in a letter to Abiah Root, dated 23 February 1845 from The Letters of Emily Dickinson

[exhaled-spirals]

— René Char, Selected Poems of René Char

[havingapoemwithyou]

Almond Blossom by Fiona Benson

[cloudswamp]

there is only one of everything, margaret atwood

[ololygas]

Love Song, Henry Dumas

[weltenwellen]

Ambalila Hemsell, from "Party Poem"

[beguines]

Laurie Sheck