Verbrannte Worte

Jennifer Chang, from "Dialogues (Against Literature)"

F. E. Marie

love is surrounding yourself with people who see you this clearly

On the Pulse of Morning By Maya Angelou

Fairy trees of the Baltic Coast II by Heiko Gerlicher

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

Mary Oliver, from "The Buddha's Last Instructions", Devotions

Poems that the earth writes upon the sky.

— Jim Elliot

Mary Oliver, “Dogfish.” Dream Work

Mary Oliver, from “I Don't Want to Be Demure or Respectable”, Blue Horses

I am the sound emitting from a playful night creature: a fox with streaks of flame for a mane, finding comfort on cool moss beneath the infinite gloam; alone and somehow,  importantly, still in love.

Aracelis Girmay, “Ars Poetica”  |  John Berger, And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos  |  Derek Walcott, “The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory (Nobel Lecture)”  |  sam sax, “Prayer for the Mutilated World”  |  Edmond Jabés, “Drawn Curtains”

on earth we’re briefly gorgeous - ocean vuong | she’s got you - patsy cline | for all the dogs who barked at me on the sidewalks in connecticut - hanif abdurraqib |  the glass essay - anne carson | a memory like a knife - julien pacuad | arzum uzun | you are happy - margaret atwood | this is what i have of you - fun home

Jorie Graham, from “Scarcely There”

Jorie Graham, from “Mother’s Hands Drawing Me”

Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz, from “Not Doing Something Wrong Isn’t the Same as Doing Something Right”, The Year of No Mistakes