James Baldwin, Nothing Personal

Jericho Brown, "To Be Asked for a Kiss"

[Text ID: “As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard.”]

wood engraving today

Timothy Liu, from a poem titled "I Want It to Be Winter All the Time," featured in Poetry (March 2026)

Albert Camus, The Complete Notebooks

from "Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin (1939-1947)"

Private Collection Shai and Shuxiu Lin Bandmann. 

moonstone

[text ID: I go on living. Deathtouched, changed, but my life arrives again / at yet. It’s May. I wake to it, thick and sweet as honey I’d forgotten.]

Marina Tsvetaeva, from "My Ear Attends To You"

Taylor Schultek - Aberration, 2025 - Oil on birch panel

— William Shakespeare, Beatrice to Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing (Act IV, Scene i) (via lunamonchtuna)

— Rachel Mennies, from The Naomi Letters "April 18, 2017" (via lunamonchtuna)

— Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

— Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Aurelia Plath (1950), featured in The Collected Letters (via lunamonchtuna)

Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye