"speak low if you speak love."

"i love you the better; the hearers may cry 'amen.'" (shakespeare)

[quo-usque-tandem]

Watercolor 4 by Sam Gilliam

[transparentoctopus]

RB Kitaj, cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air 1962

[havingapoemwithyou]

To a stranger by Walt Whitman

[metamorphesque]

Edvard Munch, Summer Night By the Beach

[killyridols]

candlelight by anna ruth, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 60 × 60 × 4 centimeters

[weltenwellen]

Wildness Before Something Sublime Leila Chatti

[0pomo]

Neon Lily

[jjimjil-bang]

sere favoleggianti, vogue italia december 1985, by albert watson and by manuela pavesi

[metamorphesque]

this is what it means to be human

Everything, Mary Oliver

The Breathing, Denise Levertov

A Prayer by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Laughing Heart by Charles Bukowski

Like a Small Café, That’s Love by Mahmoud Darwish (translated by Mohammad Shaheen)

Having a Coke with You by Frank O’Hara

Eating Together by Li-Young Lee

The Orange by Wendy Cope

The Quiet Machine, Ada Limón

To Go Mad, Paruyr Sevak

Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled with Shrieks by Christopher Citro

Hammond B3 Organ Cistern, Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Peace XVIII, Khalil Gibran

Your Unripe Love, Paruyr Sevak (from “Anthology of Armenian poetry")

Here and Now by Peter Balakian

Ich finde dich (I find you) by Rainer Maria Rilke

The Thing Is by Ellen Bass

One Art by Elizabeth Bishop

Miss you. Would like to take a walk with you. by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

I Want to Write Something So Simply by Mary Oliver

What's Not to Love by Brendan Constantine

Where does such tenderness come from? by Marina Tsvetaeva

You Are Tired (I Think) by E. E. Cummings

Living With the News by W.S.Merwin

What the Living Do by Marie Howe

[lifeinpoetry]

Everyone shivering in their Leather jackets Eating sandwiches named after Serial killers And in the middle of All of it Magnolia trees Enough to make you Stop and say

Fuck!

Super tenderly.

— Ana Božičević, “Spring 2,” published in NY Tyrant

[killyridols]

unknown title by 潘 英豪 (pan inkhoo), 2024, unknown materials, unknown dimensions

[poeticrose]

“You are a thousand flowers, —you are a meadow full of them—”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay, from “The Lamp and the Bell,” published c. 1921

[processes]

DUSK / APR2026

[brilliant-brown-blog]

Pastel Whispers - Line Holtegaard

[flowerytale]

Virginia Woolf, from The Waves

[havingapoemwithyou]

Imaginary Conversation by Linda Pastan

[vieilllevague]

point d'amour