. closedheart

i am a solitary soul

[poetryconcrete]

Children playing in the temple of Diana, 1973, in Évora, Portugal. 

[pinkstarlightcomputer]

Cesare Maggi, il ritorno, 1909 (The Return)

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Marguerite Duras, "The Ravishing of Lol Stein," pub. c. 1964 (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

[shakaprio]

girls will see this and yearn the way house wives yearned for their husbands in the war

[landsccape]

[nixscriptum]

[pallegina]

*uses an em dash and a colon in the same sentence* we're done when i say we're done.

[su-n-s-e-t]

[dogboyism]

[nixscriptum]

[inkpressedpetals]

[weltenwellen]

Margaret Atwood, “Thoughts from Underground”, Selected Poems: 1965-1975

[antoniabishop]

dogs I saw on vacation

[metamorphesque]

this is what it means to be human

Everything, Mary Oliver

The Breathing, Denise Levertov

A Prayer by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Laughing Heart by Charles Bukowski

Like a Small Café, That’s Love by Mahmoud Darwish (translated by Mohammad Shaheen)

Having a Coke with You by Frank O’Hara

Eating Together by Li-Young Lee

The Orange by Wendy Cope

The Quiet Machine, Ada Limón

To Go Mad, Paruyr Sevak

Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled with Shrieks by Christopher Citro

Hammond B3 Organ Cistern, Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Peace XVIII, Khalil Gibran

Your Unripe Love, Paruyr Sevak (from “Anthology of Armenian poetry")

Here and Now by Peter Balakian

Ich finde dich (I find you) by Rainer Maria Rilke

The Thing Is by Ellen Bass

One Art by Elizabeth Bishop

Miss you. Would like to take a walk with you. by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

I Want to Write Something So Simply by Mary Oliver

What's Not to Love by Brendan Constantine

Where does such tenderness come from? by Marina Tsvetaeva

You Are Tired (I Think) by E. E. Cummings

Living With the News by W.S.Merwin

What the Living Do by Marie Howe

[imasymbolfornothingthatexists]

Sorry for falling off. That was on purpose. I had to become something I wasn’t in order to remember what I was.

[zegalba]

[velvetcloak]

elie saab | spring 2022