Kai OnaOna

Gateway to athousand miles

[literatuer]

Vladimir Mayakovsky, from “A Letter to Comrade Kostrov from Paris on the Nature of Love”

[sottopressione1]

[vilicity]

[ayamebird]

ダイヤモンドリリー

写真じゃ伝わらないですがキラキラしてる

[flowerytale]

Margaret Atwood, from "Roominghouse, Winter", Selected Poems: 1965-1975

[debelice]

Autumnal

[ralfmaximus]

“An old god comes.”

“What? No. That’s just a cold front. It’s Autumn.”

“Yes, one of the oldest gods of all.”

[witchesversuspatriarchy]

[fromdarzaitoleeza]

From Two poems by Mahmoud Darwish

[fromdarzaitoleeza]

“War does not decide who is right,

War decides who is left .”

[dk-thrive]

There’s a line I read once, by an Egyptian poet whose name I cannot remember: that a diary’s function is not to show you who you are, but who it is you have ceased to be.

— Sean Michaels, Do You Remember Being Born: A Novel (Astra House, September 5, 2023)

[weltenwellen]

Cynthia Dewi Oka, from "Redacted from a Know-Your-Rights Training Agenda—"

[feral-ballad]

Fadwa Tuqan, tr. by Mohammed Sawaie, from Tent Generations: Palestinian Poems; “At Allenby Bridge”

[Text ID: “Yes, my humanness bleeds, my heart / drips rancor, my blood is poison and fire.”]

[evidently-endless]

‘Nostos’ - Louise Glück

[luthienne]

Mahmoud Darwish, from The Butterfly's Burden; "Cadence Chooses Me" (tr. from the Arabic by Fady Joudah)

[weltenwellen]

Clarice Lispector, tr. by Ronald W. Sousa, The Passion According to G.H.