[thenightlymirror]

James Baldwin.

[loveridden1999]

"it is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in the broken world."

[derangedrhythms]

Caitlin Bailey, Solve for Desire; from 'Somewhere a Key' (edited excerpt)

[rabbithearteddd]

“September” by Jennifer Michael Hecht

[mervynbunter]

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

[apocryphics]

James Wright

[nixscriptum]

[primulaceas]

this gif is like a poem to me

[a-flickering-soul]

"June" by Alex Dimitrov. to ME.

[weltenwellen]

Marketing Life For Those Of Us Left Ada Limón

[havingapoemwithyou]

My Life in the New Millennium By Joshua Clover

[weltenwellen]

For years I lived Maggie Smith

[serratedpens]

Tourist, Sonia Feldman

[fageleh]

—Michael Lassell, from How To Watch Your Brother Die

[symeonae]

Traci Brimhall, Murder Ballad in the Land of Nod, from Come the Slumberless To the Land of Nod

[havingapoemwithyou]

Crush by Ada Limón

[marvel-at-words]

Perhaps it is becoming clearer why I felt no romance when you told me that you carried my last letter with you, everywhere you went, for months on end, unopened. This may have served some purpose for you, but whatever it was, surely it bore little resemblance to mine. I never aimed to give you a talisman, an empty vessel to flood with whatever longing, dread, or sorrow happened to be the day’s mood. I wrote it because I had something to say to you.

“177.” Bluets, Maggie Nelson

[havingapoemwithyou]

Prayer for werewolves by Stephanie Burt