[derangedrhythms]

Margaret Atwood, The Animals in That Country; from ‘Speeches for Dr Frankenstein’

TEXT ID: you dangle on the leash of your own longing; your need grows teeth.

[pmamtraveller]

Luca Ponsato - Does Anyone See My Suffering

[existential-celestial]

Emily Wilson, from “Postcard I almost send to an almost lover,” featured in THE BOHEMYTH (Dublin, Ireland)

[lifeinpoetry]

The wound, / the past, is still bleeding.

— Saddiq Dzukogi, from Book Two, Bakandamiya

[heavensghost]

I love with my teeth

[octoberbrunette]

“When he offers his lips, go for his throat.”

— Clementine von Radics (via deslavandieres)

[drops-of-universe]

poetry fans be like i love that poem it made me feel fucking awful & horrible & scared

[heavensghost]

To be alone with you

[weltenwellen]

L. A. Johnson, from "Birthmark"

[bobbole]

Małgorzata Kalinowska, Mała śmierć

[mournfulroses]

Clarice Lispector, from a letter to Fernando Sabino featured in Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector

[geryone]

Good Girl and Other Yearnings, Isabelle Correa

[omneco]

[strokeofserenity]

Mahmoud Darwish, “Another Road In The Road.”

[weltenwellen]

June Jordan, from "Intifada Incantation: Poem #8 for b.b.L.", Directed by Desire: The Complete Poems of June Jordan

[mournfulroses]

Emily Dickinson, from her poem titled "1188," featured in The Emergency Poet

[warm-throated-deactivated202512]

[Text ID: "A not admitting of the wound / Until it grew so wide / That all my life had entered it" / End ID.]

[louisegluck]

Ada Limón, from “Lashed to the Helm, All Stiff and Stark.” [ID in alt text]