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Sharon Olds, from "Something Is Happening", One Secret Thing: Poems

[text id: august is wounded with longing.]

an insane face card, actually

does anyone else get really emotional when two people are very vocal about how they’re soulmates? because woosan make me feel like my heart is being ripped out :’)

Theodore Roethke, from "The Abyss", The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke [ID'd]

Flower | Ghosts 3x09

Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

The Roses of Heliogabalus (detail), 1898, oil on canvas Lawrence Alma-Tadema

– Karen Russell, from “The Seagull Army Descends on Strong Beach, 1979” Vampires in the Lemon Grove and Other Stories (Vintage, 2014)

Carl Phillips, “In a Field, at Sunset”, Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020

– Ivan Turgenev, from “The Singers,” A Sportsman’s Notebook (Everyman’s Library, 1992)

Devin Kelly, from "Wishing I Was Looking Down at Baseball Diamonds from an Airplane Window”