december……

they had a great time

would you let him light the path for you?

Franz Wright, from “Our Conversation” [ID in alt text]

[text ID: Trying to remember you / is like carrying water / in my hands a long distance / across sand. Somewhere people are waiting. / They have drunk nothing for days.]

Alejandra Pizarnik, tr. by Yvette Siegert, Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972

Angela Deane, In the Rose Garden

— Anais Nin, January 1922

Jaakko Pallasvuo

˗ˏˋin case you’d like to buy me a☕ˎˊ˗  

1. romeo and juliet on the balcony, julius kronberg 2. the meeting on the turret stairs, frederic william burton 3. la belle dame sans merci, john william waterhouse 4. god speed, edmund blair leighton 5. the end of the quest, francis bernard dicksee 6. la belle dame sans merci, francis bernard dicksee

— Adonis, Selected Poems (trans. Khaled Mattawa)