desert places

Gertrud Kolmar, from Dark Soliloquy: The Selected Poems; “Asia,” (via ontheedgeofdarkness)

-George Herbert

— H.D., from Collected Poems 1912-1944; “A Dead Priestess Speaks”

Margaret Atwood, A Sunday Drive (via autobibliographies)

— Jill Khoury, from “My mother speaks to me from the grave, again,” published in Barren Magazine

Andal, excerpt of Koli Alaippatan Munnam : The Song for The Clothes (tr. by Priya Sarukkai Chabria)

[Text ID: “remember everything, see through your wounds.”]

[Text ID: I use my body to find love. I eat all the wrong foods. I believe what I see with my own two eyes. Fear eats me. I have to look for a job. I can sprint faster than sound. I burn forever, I have no end. /End ID]

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vita Sackville-West c. October 1928

Richard Siken, from Spork Press’ Editor’s Pages: “The Long and the Short of It” (via soracities)

[ID: “I lost it all with my eyes wide open.” end ID]