nonsensical

YOU KNOW ME BETTER THAN THAT

[havingapoemwithyou]

Middle age by Jason Shinder

[vomitif]

The Necrophiliac, Gabrielle Wittkop

[petaltexturedskies]

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

[primulaceas]

John Steinbeck, East of Eden

[geryone]

Nothing at All, Olivia Tapiero

[mervynbunter]

Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)

[syringavulgaris]

“Saints love to be whipped and I’ve seen pictures galore of their ecstatic scars and longing glances. Watching an ordinary person being whipped couldn’t have the same effect. Saintly flesh is soft and white and always hidden from the day. When the whip finds it out, that is the moment of pleasure, the moment when what was hidden is revealed.”

— Jeanette Winterson, The Passion

[derangedrhythms]

Denise Levertov, The Sorrow Dance; Living While It May

[mournfulroses]

María Casares, from a letter to Albert Camus, featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

[orpheuslament]

Half-light, Frank Bidart

[derangedrhythms]

William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

[mournfulroses]

Fyodor Dostoevsky, from his novel titled "White Nights," originally published in 1848

[metamorphesque]

— I'm glad your sickness, Marina Tsvetaeva (translated from the Russian by Elaine Feinstein)

[vexheart]

This

[sentimentalbeing2001]

I Worried, Mary Oliver

[deviika]

Lee Krasner // Franz Kafka

[weltenwellen]

Natalie Díaz, from "American Arithmetic", Postcolonial Love Poem