orange dreaming red

I want to believe that the imperfections are nothing—that the light is everything—

[patronsaintofweepingmothers]

"antique store, portland" (2006), lovely librarians

[weltenwellen]

Hieu Minh Nguyen, from “Heavy”

[dreamsofacommonlanguage]

Being queer saved my life. Often we see queerness as deprivation. But when I look at my life, I saw that queerness demanded an alternative innovation from me. I had to make alternative routes; it made me curious; it made me ask, "Is this enough for me?"

— Ocean Vuong

[inspiredsunnie]

[soracities]

Eavan Boland, “A Woman Painted on a Leaf”

[Text ID: “I want a poem I can grow old in. I want a poem I can die in.”]

[perennial-princess]

[havingapoemwithyou]

Worm Moon by Mary Oliver

[ascabray-deactivated20220505]

Ernesto Che Guevara, Letters From Afar: The Congo And Bolivia, To My Children

[besidebloomingirises]

[orpheuslament]

Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending and the World Goes On

[weltenwellen]

Saeed Jones, "Aretha Franklin Hears an Echo While Singing "Save Me", Alive at the End of the World

[talestalesof]

“I loved nothing more: deep privacy of the sensual life, the self disappearing into it or inseparable from it”

— Louise Glück, The Sensual Worlds

[nobrashfestivity]

Helen Frankenthaler, Monoprint VII

[shittowatch]

Kedi (2016)

[primulaceas]

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

[firstfullmoon]

Hala Alyan, “September, a week in”

[heavensghost]

I picture it soft and I ache!