Kalopsia

Becoming is an antimemory

[nevver]

Nimbus Palazzo, Berndnaut Smilde

[weltenwellen]

I Do Know Some Things Richard Siken

[aoiui]

[weltenwellen]

Ocean Vuong, from “Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong”, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

[havingapoemwithyou]

Not Anyone Who Says by Mary Oliver

[woshibai]

湖 Lake

[dk-thrive]

The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn’t live boldly enough, that they didn’t invest enough heart, didn’t love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.

— Ted Hughes, in a letter to his 24 year old Son Nicholas, in “Letters of Ted Hughes (Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2008. Compiled, selected, and edited by the poet and editor Christopher Reid.)

[lifeinpoetry]

the problem with distance / is that it just works too good // & when I understand it, I don’t / believe in it anymore

— Rosie Stockton, from "DISPERSAL," Fuel

[soracities]

Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch (trans. Gregory Rabassa)

[Text ID: “As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard.”]

[nevver]

[nevver]

The Kafka Diaries

[kafk-a]

leaf shapes

[dk-thrive]

“Instead of asking “What is the ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ thing to do?” the practitioner asks, “What is the wisest and most compassionate thing to do?”

~ Stephen Batchelor, After Buddhism: Rethinking the Dharma for a Secular Age (Yale University Press, October 27, 2015)

[lifeinpoetry]

Letting others live and thrive on one’s own rejection— how embarrassing.

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

[dk-thrive]

Calamity taught you the need to appreciate life and enjoy it to the fullest, to excess. You abhorred moderation even more than you detested waste. One must choose the lesser of two evils, you often said.

— Violaine Huisman, The Monuments of Paris: A Novel. (Penguin, April 14, 2026)

[nevver]

[nevver]

She’ll change her tune, Nguan

[weltenwellen]

June Jordan, from "Intifada Incantation: Poem #8 for b.b.L.", Directed by Desire: The Complete Poems of June Jordan

[nevver]

Party down, Scott Daniel Ellison