as if nobody else was around

[unmetlove]

[sugarwithteeth]

[shadows-of-infinity]

No chance of escaping

[clossed-111-deactivated20210528]

[feral-ballad]

Kim Addonizio, from Lucifer at the Starlite: Poems; “You with the crack running through you”

[rinfanclub]

[weltenwellen]

Kim Addonizio, “The Singing”, Tell Me

[romanticallymad]

I wish i could have a normal crush... but no, my brain wants to worship every little detail of you until it drives me insane

[mournfulroses]

John Yau, from "Borrowed Love Poems," featured in Boston Review (edited)

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

[fungusamongusblog2]

[softchubbypuppy]

[flowerytale]

John Keats, from a letter to Fanny Brawne

[metamorphesque]

— Anna Akhmatova, The Guest

[text ID: "What do you want?" I asked. / "To be with you in hell," he said.]

[dominants-dominion]

Hold her by the jaw when you talk to her so you know shes listening.

[becomingvecna]

— David Cronenberg, Consumed

[lucidloving]

Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence // Ada Limón, "Lies About Sea Creatures" // Sherita Walker // @itsbaditsgood // Richard Siken, "I Had a Dream About You" // Richard Siken, "You Are Jeff" (8) // Richard Siken, "Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out" // @_demarmol on Instagram // Anne Sexton, "The Touch"