you rue the day you kissed the writer in the dark

Eduard Bagritsky, from “Black Bread,” featured in “A Treasury of Russian Verse,”

Gennady Aygi, tr. by Peter France, from “The People Are a Temple.”

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, Haruki Murakami

Anne Frank // unknown

heather havrilesky // “last one up”, paul oxborough // from a letter to theo van gogh, vincent van gogh // on the beach at night alone (2017), dir. sang-soo hong // shauna niequist

A Cruelty Special to Our Species, Emily Jungmin Yoon

Details II: Aurora and Cephalus, 1811 and 1810, by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin. (detail I)

― Anaïs Nin, Incest: From “A Journal of Love”: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932-1934

Rumi, from The Privileged Lovers, tr. by Fereydoun Kia

Emily Dickinson // Virginia Woolf

if not, winter, sappho (tr. anne carson)

girls holding roses

— Dita Von Teese

~The picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde