at dusk each day

[mournfulroses]

Mahmoud Darwish, from The Adam of two Edens: Selected Poems; "To an Iraqi Poet,"

[coffindollie]

[feral-ballad]

Sonia Sanchez, from Like the singing coming off the drums: Love Poems; “Tanka”

[Text ID: “i thought about you / the pain of not having / you cruising my bones.”]

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Wild horses crossing a river in Iran Photo: Eydi Heydari

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.”Life, and Nothing More…” (Persian: زندگی و دیگر هیچ‎‎) directed by Abbas Kiarostami

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my favourite faye wei wei paintings

little blue bird from the pillow flew (2020) \\ first i must clean the keys of the piano with milk (2022) \\ the black bells of a distant new mexico (2023) \\ an echo trapped forever (2023) \\ sweet velvet flower there is no time/ I ask to go back I wish you were mine (2021) \\ two butterfly lovers (2021) \\ untitled (2022) \\ nectar for honey (2021) \\ red i (2022) \\ fountain lies the sun (2017)

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Simone Weil, tr. by Richard Rees, First and Last Notebooks

[atduskeachday]

Hole Punch Cloud or Fallstreak Hole

August 17, 2008

[metamorphesque]

— Anna Akhmatova, The Sentence

[a-quiet-green-agreement]

Of course I'm by myself. When haven't I been by myself.

— Toni Morrison, Tar Baby

[gumguzzler]

“Apricot Sprites” found in the cross sections of a fruit tree by Daniel

[talestalesof]

Our words don't suit prophecies anymore. That power is left to other species: to oak trees, for example, to the tides, which through their restlessness carry a phosphorescence we're not equipped to hear.

Etel Adnan, from Shifting the Silence

[antiqueanimals]

Евгений Чарушин "Вот они какие". 1962.

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~ Ovid, The Metamorphoses, Book XV (translated by Allen Mandelbaum)

[atduskeachday]

Edmond Jabès, The Little Book of Unexpected Subversion

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