Life

Death is the Orgasm of Life

[weltenwellen]

Carl Phillips, "In a Field, at Sunset", Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020

[literaryvein]

L. V., excerpts from the epilogue

[inkpressedpetals]

[inkpressedpetals]

[literaryvein]

L. V., excerpts from the epilogue

[weltenwellen]

Olena Kalytiak Davis, Shattered Sonnets, Love Cards, and Other Off and Back Handed Importunities

[threespringspoet]

August carried melancholy and led me to nostalgic September…Yet I have no memories of my last September. Was it this green, this blue?

Sanity Sipper, from my diary, September 4th

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Leah Horlick from “For Your Own Good”

[shisasan]

this strange misty evening;

September 10th, 1929 Virginia Woolf, “A Writer’s Diary” (1918 - 1941)

[mournfulroses]

Arthur Rimbaud, from a poem titled "Night in Hell," featured in Complete Works & Selected Letters

[nixscriptum]

[literaryvein]

L. V., excerpts from a past life

[weltenwellen]

Czeslaw Milosz, New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001

[weltenwellen]

Kaveh Akbar, from "The New World", Calling a Wolf a Wolf

[weltenwellen]

Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I’m Home

[lunamonchtuna]

— Samuel Beckett, an excerpt from "Cascando" (via lunamonchtuna)

[mournfulroses]

Christa Wolf, from her novel titled "Cassandra," originally published in 1983