Circle of Stars

from the introduction to emily wilsons translation of the iliad

Ada Limón, The Carrying.

Anaïs Nin, from nearer the moon: the previously unpublished unexpurgated diary,1937-1939

Li-Young Lee, from I Loved You Before I Was Born, The Undressing: Poems

— Sylvia Plath, "The Bell Jar"

— Marie Howe, from “The Addict”

Virginia Woolf, Night and Day/Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath/C.J. Hauser, The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays/ Richard Siken, War of the Foxes

repeating this like a mantra 🧘🏾‍♀️

go watch Barbie

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE dir. Joe Wright 

Beau Taplin

Kate Chopin, from The Awakening

Rainer Maria Rilke, from Letters to a Young Poet (tr. Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy)

{quotes:Mary Ruefle/uk/Francis Forever Song by Mitski/The Hand Has Twenty-Seven Bones by Natalie Diaz/Hélène Cixous, from “Olivier De Serres- A Single Passion Two Witnesses,” Love Itself: In the Letter Box (Polity Press, 2008) /uk /Saadi Youssef, from ‘Solos on the Oud’, Without an Alphabet, Without a Face: Selected Poems (trans. Khaled Mattawa) /fatima aamer bilal, from her garden yearns more for visitors than water. }

:) can be ominous, if it’s alone or accompanied by odd context! But sometimes, it’s yer friendly ol smile. :] is a friendly face. That is a friend. Look at it. What harm could it possibly do?

You have the secret knowledge my friend

The little guys are here… the littlest of smiles… like being handed a flower on a nice day…

Like this almost

Sue zhao/Ryan O'Connell