interim lives

she/her, 30s europe, between east and west words+snaps

[havingapoemwithyou]

Origin of the Marble Forest by Gregory Orr

[weltenwellen]

Wildness Before Something Sublime Leila Chatti

[weltenwellen]

Wildness Before Something Sublime Leila Chatti

[weltenwellen]

I Do Know Some Things Richard Siken

[lucidloving]

Fleabag (2016) // @symbiocene // Charles M. Schulz, Peanuts // Nikki Giovanni, Mirrors // cave painting // 肉包不吃肉, The Husky and His White Cat Shizun // thethingswesay.com // Brian Kershiznik // Neal A. Maxwell // Audre Lorde, "Equinox"

[apocryphics]

[weltenwellen]

Hanif Abdurraqib, The Crown Ain't Worth Much

[weltenwellen]

Danez Smith, “little prayer”

[stahsm]

“Cleaning the House” painting by Sally Welchman.

[feral-ballad]

Aaiún Nin, from Broken Halves of a Milky Sun: Poems; “Tell me of the first time you were poisoned”

[wovi]

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susan sontag

[weltenwellen]

Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

[mournfulroses]

Wislawa Szymborska, from "Tortures," featured in Map: Collected and Last Poems

[weltenwellen]

Cameron Awkward-Rich,  from "The Child Formerly Known As _________"

[wellconstructedsentences]

There could be no history without catastrophe; to outline a history, one had to narrate its disasters; to formulate one's position in the world, one had to define oneself in relation to the experienced catastrophes.

My Parents by Aleksandar Hemon

[transatlantyks]

"A shining monument of loss," Aleksandar Hemon

[fatchance]

“Home is where people notice when you are not there.”

— Aleksandar Hemon, The World and All It Holds, 2023.

[havingapoemwithyou]

In the City of Light by Larry Levis