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love and so on

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— natalie wee, never been kissed (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

[heavensghost]

I know I could have loved you but you would not let me

[weltenwellen]

Joy Sullivan, from “These Days People Are Really Selling Me On California”, Instructions for Traveling West

[weltenwellen]

Tracy K. Smith, from “Don’t You Wonder, Sometimes?”, Life on Mars

[luthienne]

why are you sitting there so silently, / like someone mute, eating your heart,

from Homer's The Odyssey (tr. Emily Wilson)

[most-weasel]

we shall all be healed / inprnt

[feral-ballad]

Saadi Youssef, tr. by Sinan Antoon & Peter Money, from Nostalgia, My Enemy; "A difficult variation"

[Text ID: "sunset gives me the opulence of roses / and I ask about you. I ask about you"]

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Franz Kafka // Richard Siken

[orchard-bliss]

Night opens me and it’s you.

Alejandra Pizarnik; “I Check For You In The Wind”, The Galloping Hour: French Poems, (tr. by Patricio Ferrari and Forrest Gander).

[feral-ballad]

Caitlin Bailey, from Solve for Desire: Poems; “Incantare”

[Text ID: “Someone has replaced your heart / with raw meat. / That delicacy. I’m working on a trick / where I come across sated. / Where I don’t remember how to be ravenous.”]

[latibule-e-deactivated20231012]

— Kim Visda, from “For Lack Of A Better Poem.”

[septemberkisses]

— Carol Rifka Brunt in Tell The Wolves I'm Home

[geryone]

Still Falling, Jennifer Grotz

[flowerytale]

Alice Walker, from “Even As I Hold You”, Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990

[weltenwellen]

Franny Choi, from “Waste”, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

[poisonlicorice]

birthday song

lorde “ribs” / natalie wee “asami writes to korra for three years” / mikako ichikawa / silas denver melvin “twenty” / the backseat lovers “close your eyes”

[geryone]

Do Not Bring Him Water, Caitlin Scarano

[geryone]

Rookery, Traci Brimhall