Bonfire of Dreams

Cancer sun, Capricorn moon, Libra rising “I am my own muse, I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.”

[nixscriptum]

[feral-ballad]

Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta, and Maria Velho da Costa, tr. by Helen R. Lane, from The Three Marias: New Portuguese Letters; “Fátima”

[poetic-questions]

from Franz Kafka's "Letters to Felice"

[feral-ballad]

Tawanda Mulalu, from Please Make Me Pretty, I Don't Want to Die: Poems; “Good Long Poem”

[luthienne]

Anne Carson, from Glass, Irony and God

[Text ID: I felt as if the sky was torn off my life.]

[nixscriptum]

if the sun wrote a letter to the moon.

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

as simple as that

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[soracities]

“The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

[feral-ballad]

I have never wanted to leave you in anything resembling pain.

I want to leave you under roofs that always answer you.

Pedro Salinas, tr. by Ruth Katz Crispin, from Memory in my Hands: The Love Poetry of Pedro Salinas; “Long Lament (Forgive Me If I Wait A Few More Years)”

[detailedart]

Details: Ghost clouds - Les Nuages Fantômes. Ca. 1897, by Richard Riemerschmid.

[redlipstickresurrected]

Jana Briķe (Latvian, b. 1980, Riga, Latvia) - Adam's Dream, 2025, Paintings: Oil on Canvas

[feral-ballad]

I have never wanted to leave you in anything resembling pain.

I want to leave you under roofs that always answer you.

Pedro Salinas, tr. by Ruth Katz Crispin, from Memory in my Hands: The Love Poetry of Pedro Salinas; “Long Lament (Forgive Me If I Wait A Few More Years)”

[weltenwellen]

Chelsea Dingman, from "Blood Moon"

[feral-ballad]

Tishani Doshi, from A God at the Door; “Survival”

[weltenwellen]

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

[weltenwellen]

Tracy K. Smith, from “Don’t You Wonder, Sometimes?”, Life on Mars

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