what I am aches in me

[huariqueje]

Crocus in pot - Inge Schiöler

Swedish , 1908-1971

Oil on canvas , 33.5 x 27.5 cm.

[wordscanbeenough]

“I didn’t expect” – she paused – “for it to be part of everything, every minute. I didn’t know that you could lose someone, and that meant you lost so much else.”

Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

[soracities]

Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi, from "Theatre" (trans. Sarah Maguire & Sabry Hafez) [ID'd]

[wordscanbeenough]

Ada Limón, from "The Hurting Kind"

[wordscanbeenough]

Ali Smith, Autumn

[mayonezli]

Pertevniyal Valide Sultan Mosque, Istanbul-Türkiye.

[lone-pine-poetry]

and i know there is violence in me: sharp edges, sudden storms, the way i can adore something until it breathes and then feel it curdle overnight into this bone-deep grief.

lone-pine-poetry, from Cathedral-Sized Devotion vs Closed Hands

[havingapoemwithyou]

Earl by Louis Jenkins

[weltenwellen]

A Conversation with Richard Siken by Thomas Hobohm

[powerburial]

what's the matter honey? you've hardly touched your fleeting experience of time on earth

[wordscanbeenough]

Ada Limón, from "The Hurting Kind"

[a-quiet-green-agreement]

I think of you often. I think of you often, and I remember.

– Ahdaf Soueif, from “I Think of You,” I Think of You: Stories (Anchor Books, 2007)

[derangedrhythms]

Alejandra Pizarnik, Selected Poems: Poems Uncollected in Books (1956-1960); from ‘Approximations’, tr. Cecilia Rossi

TEXT ID: I call you and you don’t come I love you and you don’t come

[peaceinthestorm]

Carl Moll (1861-1945, Austrian) ~ Dämmerung, 1902

[Source: leopoldmuseum.org]

[weltenwellen]

Joy Sullivan, from “These Days People Are Really Selling Me On California”, Instructions for Traveling West

[crippled-peeper]

“women don’t have the capacity for misogyny” have you ever met a mother

[allloversbetray]

From "Before" by Ada Limón