m e l i o r a

Ellen Bass, “The Thing Is”

The Necessity of Wildfire, Caitlin Scarano

on love arriving unannounced

Sylvia Plath, The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940–1956; ⁠— Gordon Lameyer, 29th June 1954

unknown // richard siken, litany in which some things are crossed out // hera lindsay bird, I KNEW I LOVED YOU WHEN YOU SHOWED ME YOUR MINECRAFT WORLD // warsan shire // clementine von radics, the next time we talk on facebook // amal el-mohtar and max gladstone, this is how you lose the time war // k.c. cramm, christmas eve forever

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910

from In the House With No Doors by Sarah Kay

Landscape at Dusk - Helmer Osslund

Bato Dugarzhapov, Studio, 1999

Pastel , 30  x  30 in.

— Stolen Moments, Kim Addonizio

Ada Limón, from “The Great Blue Heron Of Dunbar Road”, Bright Dead Things

–from “While the Child Sleeps, Sonya Undresses” in Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky

Noel Coward, The New Faber Book of Love Poems; from ‘Any Little Fish', ed. James Fenton

— Haruki Murakami, from “1Q84.”

Owen Gent, Lovers Series: No. 3 & No. 4

Vincent van Gogh, Olive Trees, 1889, oil on canvas National Galleries of Scotland