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[havingapoemwithyou]

In a Dream by Anna Akhmatova

[apoemaday]

Looking Back

by Ursula K. Le Guin

Remember me before I was a heap of salt, The laughing child who seldom did as she was told or came when she was called, The merry girl who became Lot’s bride, The happy woman who loved her wicked city. Do not remember me with pity. I saw you plodding on ahead into the desert of your pitiless faith. Those springs are dry; that earth is dead. I looked back, not forward, into death. Forgiving rains dissolve me, and I come still disobedient, still happy, home.

[theoptia]

Clarice Lispector, from The Passion According to G.H.

[weltenwellen]

Taking Care  Callista Buchen

[primulaceas]

Mary Oliver, "Blue Iris." Devotions

[desertarchipelago]

James Baldwin

[feral-ballad]

Sandra Cisneros, from Loose Woman: Poems; "You Bring Out the Mexican in Me"

[flowerytale]

Virginia Woolf, from The Waves

[petaltexturedskies]

Anaïs Nin, Fire: From "A Journal of Love" The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934-1937

[theoptia]

Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980; February 17th, 1970

Text ID: I’m chasing myself (I have been for years).

[prophetic-memory]

Mary Oliver, "Flare"

[puremode]

louise glück!!!!

[havingapoemwithyou]

Value Form by Brendan Joyce

[bostonpoetryslam]

Kayleb Rae Candrilli, from Water I Won’t Touch

[weltenwellen]

Wildness Before Something Sublime Leila Chatti

[megairea]

Vicente Aleixandre, from Sound of the War; A Longing for the Light: Selected Poems, 1979

[paintedcurbs]

reading didion’s “on self respect” again and again until i grow a backbone

[paintedcurbs]

On Self-Respect: Joan Didion’s 1961 Essay from the Pages of _Vogue_