Let go, or be dragged

[louisegluckpdf]

i think every publisher should have to institute a ban on books that fail what i’m calling the “little life” and “what else?” tests

[louisegluckpdf]

for reference.

[havingapoemwithyou]

[“hope” is the new thing with feathers–] by emily dickinson

[othellho]

Miller Oberman, “On Trans”

[soracities]

Octavio Paz, ‘The House of Glances’ (selected lines), A Tree Within (trans. Eliot Weinberger)

[softcells]

So real first of all

[rozzed]

why not have the reader re-read a sentence now and then? it won't hurt him....

[weltenwellen]

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

[accordionlover]

cross stitch, words from Jenny Holzer's Livings, 1980-1982

[feral-ballad]

Jeanette Winterson, from Lighthousekeeping

[weltenwellen]

Wildness Before Something Sublime Leila Chatti

[soracities]

Octavio Paz, ‘The House of Glances’ (selected lines), A Tree Within (trans. Eliot Weinberger)

[myanhedonia]

Power Ballad, 2019, by Joseph Yaeger 122.5 x 152 cm,  watercolour on gessoed canvas

[stlamb]

[havingapoemwithyou]

Earl by Louis Jenkins

[weltenwellen]

Leila Chatti, "Postcard from Gone"

[typewriter-worries]

[ Text ID:

When you left I walked into the ocean. Not to drown but to be held by something reluctant to let go.

Don't make this bigger than it is, which is big enough to swallow whales and civilizations.

I joined the blue, I was blue.

And when I looked down, I shattered and reformed so many times, you know, I couldn't catch a clear look at myself. ]

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

“Back in my room I can’t hear the river passing like time, or the moon emerging from the shadow of earth, but I can see the water that never repeats itself. It’s very difficult to look at the World and into your heart at the same time.”

— Jim Harrison, from “The Davenport Lunar Eclipse,” Complete Poems, ed. Joseph Bednarik (Copper Canyon Press, 2021)

[killyridols]

2.4 by hagan nguyen, 2022, hahnemuhle metallic rag