in everything i see, i see him

bailey | she/her | twenty-three literature and classics student

[adrasteiax]

“August of another summer, and once again I am drinking the sun and the lilies again are spread across the water”

— Mary Oliver, from The Pond in “Felicity: Poems”

[weltenwellen]

Joy Sullivan, from “Soup”, Instructions for Traveling West

[feral-ballad]

Claude de Burine, tr. Gloria Still, from Serving Blood: New Poems by French Women; “The Medium”

[petaltexturedskies]

Richard Siken, from "I had a dream about you" in Crush

[literaryvein]

L. V., excerpts from the afterword

[adrasteiax]

“Snow had fallen. I remember music from an open window. Come to me, said the world.”

— Louise Glück, from October in “Poems 1962-2012″

[nixscriptum]

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[inkpressedpetals]

[heavenspeared]

heavenspeared, from "The starving moon dims and dies"

[geryone]

Fauna, Richard Siken

[weltenwellen]

Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies

[mothprincess]

symbols, metaphors, patterns, fates, and dooms

[venusimleder]

Robert Mapplethorpe, “Heart and Dagger”, 1982.

[heavenspeared]

heavenspeared, from "The starving moon dims and dies"

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Maya C. Popa, Wound is the Origin of Wonder: Poems: “All inner life runs at some delay” (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

[weltenwellen]

Wale Ayinla, from “Portrait of a Boy with Grief”

[glowluminance]

i love you visible brushstrokes. i love you glue warped scrapbook pages. i love you awkward poems. i love you junk journal with faded receipts. i love you poorly composed journal layout. I love you unintentionally blurry photographs. i love you asymmetrical beading. i love you curling freeform crochet. i love you fingerprints on pottery. i love you reused materials. i love you improvised instruments. i love you mistakes. i love you bravery to make it anyway. i love you creativity that hasn't been wiped clean of every drop of humanity and sanitized and commodified.