Born Of Chaos And Destruction

[petaltexturedskies]

Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

[derangedrhythms]

The drop of devil’s blood in my mouth. The bad luck, the sorrow, the death.

Catherine Chidgey, The Axeman's Carnival

[lunamonchtuna]

— Izumi Shikibu, from The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono No Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan

[derangedrhythms]

Forugh Farrokhzad, Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad: Deevar (The Wall); from ‘Sin’, tr. Sholeh Wolpé

[literaryvein]

L. V., exhumed writings

[nixscriptum]

[12h3avens]

how could I not.

[havingapoemwithyou]

For Janet, at the New Year by Ellen Bass

[havingapoemwithyou]

wait by Faraj Bou al-Isha tr. Khaled Mattawa

[lunamonchtuna]

— David Benioff, Troy (adapted from The Iliad, Homer)(via lunamonchtuna)

[weltenwellen]

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

[weltenwellen]

Hanif Abdurraqib, The Crown Ain't Worth Much

[metamorphesque]

— Anaïs Nin, Henry and June

[derangedrhythms]

I learned to listen for what wasn’t being said, because it was usually more important than what was.

Margaret Atwood, Bodily Harm

[weltenwellen]

Octavio Paz, from “Sunstone”, The Collected Poems, 1957-1987

[feral-ballad]

Donika Kelly, from Bestiary: Poems; “Catalogue”

[hallucinat0ry]