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[delfinorosso1964]

[poetic-questions]

—Rainer Maria Rilke, "The Second Elegy"

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

[baxantseven]

[haageer]

[terrorignitis]

Louise Glück, from A Travel Diary; Winter Recipes from the Collective: Poems, 2021

[1five1two]

'Moonlight on a Medieval Village'. Charles Rollo Peters. 1862-1928.

[heavensghost]

from Autopsy by Donte Collins

[bestiolin]

poetrynyx

[bestiolin]

will st john

[bestiolin]

sèverine godissart

[bitesizedpoetry]

Sylvia Plath, aged 29, from "Elm", a poem she wrote after discovering her husband's affair, in a letter to Ruth Fainlight (dated Saturday, 8 September 1962)

[nixscriptum]

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

A taste of you slipped into me like moonlight in a locked church.

— Janet Lees, Reconstructed

[mournfulroses]

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Katherine Cox, featured in The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf

[mournfulroses]

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Violet Dickinson, featured in The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf

[darkpoetrynprose]

“Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.”

― Jamie Anderson