[taohun]

did you guys see the poem from a couple of days ago in poetry dot org’s daily poem it was so good and a treat to read 

[taohun]

been thinking about it since i read it 

[gettingintoknives]

Mary Oliver, from “the fourth sign of the zodiac” published in Blue Horses

[toramona]

[thenightlymirror]

James Baldwin.

[feignedremote]

Common Frank Bidart banger (from "In the Ruins," in Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016)

[havingapoemwithyou]

we have not long to love by tennessee williams

[ilovemyrosegarden]

Louise Glück in her garden. “friends, conversations, gardens. daily life. it's what we have”

[hangsawoman]

happy i've never been wanted anywhere thursday

[ashstfu]

i feel totally normal about this and the scope of my desire is completely average

[newvision]

— Ocean Vuong, from Threshold in Night Sky with Exit Wounds

[havingapoemwithyou]

snowdrops by Louise Glück

[romancestual]

“vivisection (you’re going to break my heart)” by Marty McConnell from The Best American Poetry 2014, edited by Terrance Hayes and David Lehman.

[weltenwellen]

Hieu Minh Nguyen, from “The New Decade”

[flowerytale]

Robert Goolrick, from The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life

[malojasnake]

— Sunrise, by Louise Glück

[havingapoemwithyou]

this year i mean to be a elephant by Wendy Xu

[violentobsessions77]

"But in the end, stories are about one person saying to another: This is the way it feels to me. Can you understand what I'm saying? Does it feel this way to you?"

— Kazuo Ishiguro // 2017 Nobel prize acceptance speech