The Morning Star

[perfectday1972]

illustrations by émile-antoine bayard for jules verne’s around the moon (1870) via publicdomainrev

[saintjoan]

When we un-packed it, the Paris curator was embarrassed to discover lipstick marks on its cheek: someone in the Louvre had played at being Pygmalion—or Hadrian—and kissed it. And who could blame them? Up on a pedestal, center stage, the effect of its beauty was jaw-dropping.

[lhzthepoet]

I am the wounded thing in the basement. I made war with my sorrow when what I wanted was to be seen.

If I'm the dead thing in the dark, do I get to see the sunlight? // L.H.Z

[lhzthepoet]

When my wounds are no longer wounds and my heart is less tender,

I hope I remember happiness.

This Anatomy of Melancholy | L.H.Z |

[petaltexturedskies]

Mary Oliver, from “The Gardener” in A Thousand Mornings

[itscolossal]

Los Angeles Public Library Unveils the World’s Largest Pop-Up Book

[carmenbelair]

[lhzthepoet]

If I could give you the blood in my body or the breath in my lungs I would, but I only have my heart .

- You deserve better than my fractured love || L.H.Z

[roua-poemului]

“The blood, the flowers, the fire,”

— Arthur Rimbaud, from Selected Poems; “Motion,”

[enchanted-keys]

Fumi Kaneko in Giselle (Royal Ballet 2026)

photo by Isabella Turolla

[academic-vampire]

𝔰𝔦𝔩𝔳𝔢𝔯 𝔰𝔴𝔞𝔪

[adel-i]

[petaltexturedskies]

Mary Oliver, from “Wild Geese” in Dream Work (originally published in 1986)

[frrenzetic]

[petaltexturedskies]

Edna St. Vincent Millay, from “Night is my Sister, and How Deep in Love” in The Collected Poems

[luthienne]

Natasha Trethewey, from Thrall: Poems; "Mythology"

[lhzthepoet]

I am the wounded thing in the basement. I made war with my sorrow when what I wanted was to be seen.

If I'm the dead thing in the dark, do I get to see the sunlight? // L.H.Z