I Loved You As One Loves Certain Dark Things

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[weltenwellen]

Joy Sullivan, from “These Days People Are Really Selling Me On California”, Instructions for Traveling West

[weltenwellen]

Tracy K. Smith, from “Don’t You Wonder, Sometimes?”, Life on Mars

[mournfulroses]

Cecilia Martinez, from a poem titled "Winter Then," featured in A Magnificently Ordinary Romance: Poems

[poetic-questions]

—Mary Oliver, "Blue Iris"

[feral-ballad]

Donika Kelly, from The Renunciations: Poems; “From The Catalogue of Cruelty”

[girlfictions]

Mary Oliver, from On Meditating, Sort Of

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[dreamstars]

[ashstfu]

2026 !!!!!!!!!!!

[metamorphesque]

"The Brothers Karamazov", Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Constance Garnett)

[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

[ashstfu]

born to love forced to grieve

[ashstfu]

[poetic-questions]

—Richard Siken, "Wishbone"

[softhe4rted]

to begin with, the sweet grass by mary oliver, from “devotions”

[talonabraxas]

Full moon at the Temple of Poseidon in Sounio, Greece

[metamorphesque]

The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas

[weltenwellen]

Czeslaw Milosz, tr. by Robert Haas, from “Late Ripeness”, Second Space: New Poems

[primulaceas]

Mary Oliver, "From The Book of Time." Devotions