am i doing any of this life right?

[allsadnshit]

I will never get over how weird it feels to have tragic and emotional chapters of your life where you just also still go to work, and the grocery store, and see funny videos online all while feeling such paralyzing fear and heartache

life just goes on no matter what

[elirluna]

marcel the shell with shoes on (2021)

[typewriter-worries]

Mothman Apologia, Robert Wood Lynn

[havingapoemwithyou]

An Optimism By Cameron Awkward-Rich

[havingapoemwithyou]

Essay on Crying at Night by Ken Chen

[havingapoemwithyou]

I Am So Depressed I Feel Like Jumping in the River Behind My House but Won’t Because I’m Thirty-Eight and Not Eighteen by Sandra Cisneros

[apocryphics]

James Wright

[dogfitch]

Ray Bradbury - Dandelion Wine

[nunhauntology]

RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOURSELF MEANS THAT YOU DON’T FALL FOR SHALLOW AND EASY SOLUTIONS

ADRIENNE RICH

[jtownraindancer]

[smokefalls]

Just last week, I read how trees “speak” to each other underground, how they let out warnings of toxins or deforestation. Trees have also been known to form alliances and “friendships” through fungal networks. All of these findings are still new, but I’m in love with the idea that plants have a temperature, that they can run warm and cold when they need to, that they can send signals to species who will help them, not harm them. And what a magnificent telegraph we might send back, especially if other humans have ever made you feel alone on this earth.

Aimee Nezhukumatathil, "Corpse Flower" from World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments

[smokefalls]

I know I will search for fireflies all the rest of my days, even though they dwindle a little bit more each year. I can’t help it. They blink on and off, a lime glow to the summer night air, as if to say: I am still here, you are still here, I am still here, you are still here, I am, you are, over and over again.

Aimee Nezhukumatathil, "Firefly" from World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments

[themossydeity]

[hiyutekivigil]

[charl0ttan]

i left a poem out over night. one hundred lovesick beetles and ants in the kitchen

[petaltexturedskies]

Louise Glück, from "October" in Poems 1962-2012

[lena-oleanderson]

also a poem from the new, unreleased collection. very possibly my own all-time favourite.

[firstfullmoon]

Ada Limón, from “The Geography of Moutains,” in Startlement: New and Selected Poems