from “Therapon, II, 4-1″ by Bruce Bond and Dan Beachy-Quick

Nicole W. Lee, from "Even the Dust"

Billie Eilish – everything i wanted // Richard Siken, "Meanwhile" // Ada Limón, "Lies About Sea Creatures"

— Alejandra Pizarnik, from “Poems Uncollected in Books,” Selected Poems, transl. by Cecilia Rossi (Waterloo Press, 2010) (via Alive on All Channels)

Emily Dickinson, from her poem titled "1188," featured in The Emergency Poet

Lola Ridge, “Secrets”

Kim Addonizio, from "Onset"

Wislawa Szymborska, from "The Century's Decline," featured in Map: Collected and Last Poems

Salma Deera, "Salt"

— James Baldwin, from If Beale Street Could Talk

anecdote of the pig, tory adkisson / ethel cain / herakles, euripides (tr. by tom sleigh.) / @inkskinned / @sanegreen / holyaches / x / italian proverb / pissing contest (or an interrogation on behalf of a lover who is no longer mine), silas denver melvin / refusal to mourn, andrea cohen.

Fortesa Latifi, from The Truth About Grief.

how to wash a heart, bhanu kapil

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Trapeze: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1947–1955

@roach-works // Melissa Broder, "Problem Area" // Mary Oliver, "The Return" // @annavonsyfert // Koyoharu Gotouge, Demon Slayer // Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance // David Levithan, How They Met and Other Stories // Tennessee Williams, Notebooks

It lingers for your whole life, Katie Maria