[weltenwellen]

Adonis, tr. by Samuel Hazo, from “Elegy for the Time at Hand”, The Pages of Day and Night

[weltenwellen]

Ocean Vuong, from “Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong”, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

[derangedrhythms]

Anne Sexton, The Death Notebooks: The Death Baby; from 'The Dy-dee Doll'

[weltenwellen]

Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, Rien ne va plus

[vexheart]

The fine line between wanting to say so much and knowing that it's better to say nothing.

[zahrahashimi]

[crucifiedlovers]

Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding (reworked by Ted Hughes)

[anvael]

[effect-of-a-modern-phase]

“The dead are orphans. No company but the silence like a moth's wing. An end to the agony of movement, to the long nightmare of going down the road. The body in peace, stillness, and order. The perfect darkness of death.”

Stephen King, The Long Walk

[itsdeenlee]

[highlandsorrows]

-Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

[rose1water]

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[kitchen-light]

“the poem begins not where the knife enters but where the blade twists.”

— Hanif Abdurraqib, from his poem ‘The Prestige’, published at Poets.Org

[vexheart]

[julaibib]

[weltenwellen]

On Seatbelts and Sunsets Hanif Abdurraqib