words from elsewhere

and songs played in heaven.

[primulaceas]

Eileen Myles, “Peanut Butter.” I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 1975 - 2014

My Love, Don't Cross That River (2013) dir. Jin Mo-young

Han Kang, “White Hair.” The White Book (translated by Deborah Smith)

Marguerite Duras, The Lover (translated by Barbara Bray)

[ymutate]

Sarah Morgan

'Is it raining where you are? '

[primulaceas]

John Steinbeck, East of Eden

[heavensghost]

Good Luck!

[weltenwellen]

Hieu Minh Nguyen, from “Heavy”

[bloodykittypaws]

[pnglove]

© kitagar

[i-will-recover-tomorrow]

[feral-ballad]

Sandra Cisneros, from Loose Woman: Poems; "I Am on My Way to Oklahoma to Bury the Man I Nearly Left My Husband For"

[havingapoemwithyou]

Poem by Denis Johnson

[koolthing0]

[achillesinhighheels]

[heavensghost]

wood engraving today

[lifeinpoetry]

I blushed with shame at my devotion to a beauty that applied to you and not me.

— Moshtari Hilal, from "Pretty Mug," Ugliness, tr. Elisabeth Lauffer

[nomorechoirs]

fr. “To be of use” by Marge Piercy

[headlightsforever]

Praise the moment when our grief becomes a window, when we can see what we could not see before.

Andrea Gibson

[godkissedme]