Cherié

To love is to be seen

[weltenwellen]

Ugochukwu Damian Okpara, from "Notes on Desire"

[weltenwellen]

Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

[weltenwellen]

Meher Manda, from "Fragment as Revisionist"

[weltenwellen]

Jane Hirshfield, from "The Weighing", The Asking: New and Selected Poems

[weltenwellen]

Kaveh Akbar, from "There Are 7,000 Living Languages", Pilgrim Bell

[weltenwellen]

Joy Sullivan, "Ghost Heart", Instructions for Traveling West

[weltenwellen]

Joy Sullivan, from “At the Airport”, Instructions for Traveling West

[pollen]

Kim Addonizio, from "Onset"

[weltenwellen]

Grief in Three Bodies: A Conversation by Victoria Chang, Prageeta Sharma & Khaty Xiong

[weltenwellen]

Natalie Díaz, from "American Arithmetic", Postcolonial Love Poem

[soracities]

Dunya Mikhail, from Diary of a wave outside the sea (trans. Elizabeth Winslow and Dunya Mikhail) [ID'd]

[soircieres]

‘— and I stood there, flooded with longing, electric, shivering.’

— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath. July 1950s

[metaphorformetaphor]

“Using someone’s name during a conversation was like a casual caress, like stroking their hair.”

— Harry Mulisch, from The Discovery of Heaven (Penguin Books, 1998)

[soracities]

Marina Tsvetaeva, from Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917-1922 (trans. Jamey Gambrell)

[Text ID: "The desire to go deep: to the depths of the night, the depths of love. Love: a gap in time."]

[feral-ballad]

Taylor Byas, from I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times: Poems; “Painted Tongue”

[Text ID: “my mother and I becoming each other, / her bruises and scars passed down, / family heirlooms that will take / me decades to stop wearing,”]

[weltenwellen]

Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

[mournfulroses]

Anaïs Nin, from a letter to Henry Miller, featured in A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller, 1932-1953