El Infierno en la Tierra

[understands]

[weltenwellen]

Simone de Beauvoir, Letters to Sartre

[luthienne]

Jack Gilbert, from Collected Poems; “Between Aging and Old”

[89words]

“She was a great dreamer of love.”

— Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love (1945)

[89words]

“Your fragrance fills my soul,”

— Virginia Adair, from Living on Fire: A Collection of Poems; “First Light,”

[daweyt]

— Georges Bataille, from “Erotism: Death and Sensuality”, originally published c. 1957 and tr. Mary Dalwood.

[rai-r]

[89words]

“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke 

[remanence-of-love]

[gulistan-blog]

㋡🥀

[geryone]

Pecking Order, Nicole Homer

[89words]

“When you left I walked into the ocean. Not to drown but to be held by something reluctant to let go.”

— Leila Chatti, from “Postcard from Gone,” published in wildness 

[89words]

“i am afraid of disappearing by morning”

— torrin a. greathouse, from “Bar Joke,” Therǝ is a Case That I Ɐm]

[neckkiss]

[89words]

“… love is more than a risk for some, for some it’s impossible, and what do we do in the face of that?”

— Sara Majka, from “Reverón’s Dolls,” Cities I’ve Never Lived In: Stories 

[89words]

“Distortion’s all that I know.”

— Alice Notley, from “I Couldn’t Sleep in My Dream,” Certain Magical Acts 

[89words]

“…I am still blazing in my golden hell.”

— Sylvia Plath, from To A Jilted Lover