Lost in Japan

[zoffia]

Astra inclinat sed non obligant...

The stars guide us, but they do not force us

[mournfulroses]

Anne Michaels, from "Infinite Gradation," originally published in October 2017

[flowerytale]

Fyodor Dostoevsky, from The Idiot

[ancientsstudies]

The year's last, loveliest smile.

ig credit: sheebsg.

[pairs-studio]

[mournfulroses]

Lana del Rey, from Violet Bent Backward Over the Grass; "Never to Heaven,"

[pairs-studio]

[pairs-studio]

[plattpfirsich]

Rip bunny corcoran you would’ve loved overusing the word demure just to piss henry off

[zoffia]

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

I am a collection of my personal “what ifs” trying to be “this is how”

[epiph-annie]

not your whole life, just a chapter

[primulaceas]

Alejandro Zambra, Ways of Going Home (translated by Megan McDowell)

[primulaceas]

Natalie Diaz, “Snake-Light.” Postcolonial Love Poem

[flowerytale]

Virginia Woolf, from Jacob's Room

[loverussianballet]

Corps in La Giselle by Mark Olich

[poetryforall]

[mun-dane]

on love arriving unannounced