Loveless

I just have a lot to sort out

[thoughtkick]

“I see the sun, and if I don’t see the sun, I know it’s there. And there’s a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[croathia]

“The Flowers of Evil was published 25 June 1857 by Auguste Poulet-Malassis and Eugène de Broise. Before signing off on the final print, Baudelaire worked and reworked his poems. He broke with the text, rectified it, and solicited his editor’s advice, working himself towards the brink of exhaustion.”

[metamorphesque]

haiku #4, tathev simonyan

[metamorphesque]

Slowly I Married Her, Leonard Cohen

[gustaving]

By Michael Ondaatje

[feral-ballad]

Linda Hogan, from Dark. Sweet.: New & Selected Poems; “Sweetness"

[paper-wounds]

[weltenwellen]

Andrea Gibson, The Madness Vase

[podencos]

Turning, W. S. Merwin

[petaltexturedskies]

My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies,

Oscar Wilde in a letter to lord Alfred Douglas, written c. May 1895 featured in The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde

[weltenwellen]

Andrea Gibson, "DEPRESSION [VERB]“, Lord of the Butterflies

[metamorphesque]

a you-shaped hole in the universe Celia Paul, Ocean Vuong, Owen Gent, Alejandra Pizarnik (trans. Yvette Siegert), Karman Verdi, Edna St Vincent Millay

[prophetic-memory]

Mary Oliver, "Flare"

[serratedpens]

Tourist, Sonia Feldman

[petaltexturedskies]

overhead the malignant gray skies of this last week are giving up and dissolving away in clouds like curdled cream, and a cold sun deigns to shed sundry spasmodic rays, all most aloof and icy

Sylvia Plath, Letters of Sylvia Plath Vol. I: 1940-1956

[centuriespast]

A miniature book made by Charlotte Brontë at age 13, one of more than two dozen she created. It recently surfaced after being considered lost for more than a century.

Credit…Clark Hodgin for The New York Times

[petaltexturedskies]

Mary Oliver, from "Spring" in New and Selected Poems