μετεμψύχωσις

"What I want from the river is what I always want: to be held by a stronger thing that, in the end, chooses mercy.”

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

Through The Fire (2016) - Jean Labourdette

[mournfulroses]

Nikita Gill, from Your Heart is the Sea: Poems; "The Anguish," originally published in 2018

[knifeeater]

Maybe it’s better to have the terrible times first. I don’t know. Maybe then, you can have, if you live, a better life, a real life, because you had to fight so hard to get it away⸺you know?⸺from the mad dog who held it in his teeth. But then your life has all those tooth marks, too, all those tatters and all that blood.

James Baldwin  This morning, this evening, so soon  

[atelierwriting]

– joy luck club, amy tan

[mournfulroses]

Mary Oliver, from a poem titled "The Crows," featured in New & Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

[weltenwellen]

Kim Addonizio, "The Numbers", Tell Me

[wolveswolves]

By Ute und Rüdiger

[sliplead]

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Manuel Bandeira, from “This Earth, That Sky.”

[flowerytale]

Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980

[rotgospels]

Mary Karr, “VI. Wisdom: The Voice of God” 

[petaltexturedskies]

Sappho, from If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho; tr. by Anne Carson

[cor-ardens-archive]

Kim Hyesoon, tr. Don Mee Choi

[criatvra]

Unstable

[rosysmoke]

[chrisfriel]

winter blooms 281223

[luthienne]

Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems; "Tear it Down"