interim lives

Origin of the Marble Forest by Gregory Orr

Wildness Before Something Sublime Leila Chatti

Wildness Before Something Sublime Leila Chatti

I Do Know Some Things Richard Siken

Fleabag (2016) // @symbiocene // Charles M. Schulz, Peanuts // Nikki Giovanni, Mirrors // cave painting // 肉包不吃肉, The Husky and His White Cat Shizun // thethingswesay.com // Brian Kershiznik // Neal A. Maxwell // Audre Lorde, "Equinox"

Hanif Abdurraqib, The Crown Ain't Worth Much

Danez Smith, “little prayer”

“Cleaning the House” painting by Sally Welchman.

Aaiún Nin, from Broken Halves of a Milky Sun: Poems; “Tell me of the first time you were poisoned”

susan sontag

Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

Wislawa Szymborska, from "Tortures," featured in Map: Collected and Last Poems

Cameron Awkward-Rich,  from "The Child Formerly Known As _________"

My Parents by Aleksandar Hemon

"A shining monument of loss," Aleksandar Hemon

— Aleksandar Hemon, The World and All It Holds, 2023.

In the City of Light by Larry Levis