As The Leaves Brighten I See The Air

[librarycards]

i am just moved by everything now. i'm porous and everything gets inside me

[xxds8]

[ryebreadgf]

oh I know her well we went to 2014 together

[ryebreadgf]

[ryebreadgf]

once I snorted a fat line of nuance and everything started depending. watch out

[aaaaaarchive]

[girlfriendsinjeans]

[ryebreadgf]

[m-elloncollie]

day bed (2005)

[emesissy]

i'm such yayybait. i'm such yippee!bait. i love to become ensnared in delight

[flowers-in-book]

The older I get, the stayer I home.

[endyrlife]

Touching grass

[weepingwidar]

Paree Rohera (Indian, 2003) - Untitled (2024)

[weepingwidar]

Andrei Pokrovskii (Russian, 1996) - Untitled (2026)

[santa-ana-winds]

[apoemaday]

Rain, New Year's Eve

by Maggie Smith

The rain is a broken piano, playing the same note over and over.

My five-year-old said that. Already she knows loving the world

means loving the wobbles you can’t shim, the creaks you can’t

oil silent — the jerry-rigged parts, MacGyvered with twine and chewing gum.

Let me love the cold rain’s plinking. Let me love the world the way I love

my young son, not only when he cups my face in his sticky hands,

but when, roughhousing, he accidentally splits my lip.

Let me love the world like a mother. Let me be tender when it lets me down.

Let me listen to the rain’s one note and hear a beginner’s song.

[holespoles]

Jeanie Tomanek