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kashmiri musalmaan | a woman, a girl, a gun

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

[paper-wounds]

via

[petaltexturedskies]

Marina Tsvetaeva, from a letter to Anna Teskova, wr. c. March 1931

[primulaceas]

John Steinbeck, East of Eden

[sagewraith]

The world is full of painful stories. Sometimes it seems as though there aren't any other kind, and yet I found myself thinking how beautiful that glint of water was through the trees.

Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler

[feral-ballad]

Kayleb Rae Candrilli, from Water I Won’t Touch; “My partner wants me to write them a poem about Sheryl Crow”

[louisegluck]

Marina Tsvetaeva, tr. by Elaine Feinstein from, “No one has taken anything away.” [ID in alt text]

[petaltexturedskies]

Sylvia Plath, from "Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices"

[aemperatrix]

Franz Wright

[louisegluck]

May Sarton, from Journal of a Solitude [ID in alt text]

[petaltexturedskies]

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

[nixscriptum]

[catilinas]

Franny Choi, Soft Science

[mournfulroses]

Jane Hirshfield, from a poem titled "The Weighing," featured in The Asking: New and Selected Poems

[bookmatter]

Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

[orpheuslament]

Song, Allen Ginsberg

[pollen]

Czeslaw Milosz, from "Ars Poetica?"