[weltenwellen]

Arielle Hebert, "The Inventors"

[weltenwellen]

Marya Hornbacher, Waiting

[weltenwellen]

Ocean Vuong, The Emperor of Gladness

[feral-ballad]

Joy Sullivan, from Instructions for Traveling West: Poems; “Howl”

[boykeats]

[ID: poem text reading,

"I am finally a woman willing to feed herself—light, bread, joy. Sometimes, you don't know that you're starving until you've had a proper meal. That's when your heart really begins to howl—when it learns what it's been missing."

/end ID.]

[weltenwellen]

Jason Bayani, from "The Story is the Love Language"

[weltenwellen]

Ocean Vuong, from “Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong”, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

[louisegluck]

Mary Oliver, from “Summer Morning.” [ID in alt text]

[weltenwellen]

Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

[ihopeucomehomesoon]

Mikko Harvey

[weltenwellen]

Alex Dimitrov, from "Love“

[weltenwellen]

Ocean Vuong, The Weight of Our Living: On Hope, Fire Escapes, and Visible Desperation

[softhe4rted]

first read on @exitmusicfrafilm’s post about 2023

[weltenwellen]

Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies

[weltenwellen]

Mary Oliver, from “The Fourth Sign of the Zodiac”, Blue Horses

[crreature]

this one

[firstfullmoon]

because tonight you are not in the mood to have your heart ripped out. It gets old, having your heart ripped out, being opened up that way.

— Natalie Diaz, from “How to Go to Dinner with a Brother on Drugs,” in When My Brother Was an Aztec

[lucidloving]

Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena // Alain de Botton, Essays in Love // Eden Robinson, "Writing Prompts for the Broken-Hearted" // Chloe Liese, Always Only You // Anne Carson and Euripides, An Oresteia // Two—Sleeping At Last // Studio Bones, SK8 the Infinity // Trista Mateer, "is it okay to say this?" // @moodylilac // D. H. Lawrence, "The Rainbow"