Kalopsia

I Do Know Some Things Richard Siken

Ocean Vuong, from “Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong”, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

Not Anyone Who Says by Mary Oliver

湖 Lake

— Ted Hughes, in a letter to his 24 year old Son Nicholas, in “Letters of Ted Hughes (Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2008. Compiled, selected, and edited by the poet and editor Christopher Reid.)

— Rosie Stockton, from "DISPERSAL," Fuel

[Text ID: “As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard.”]

leaf shapes

~ Stephen Batchelor, After Buddhism: Rethinking the Dharma for a Secular Age (Yale University Press, October 27, 2015)

— Moshtari Hilal, from "Pretty Mug," Ugliness, tr. Elisabeth Lauffer

— Violaine Huisman, The Monuments of Paris: A Novel. (Penguin, April 14, 2026)

June Jordan, from "Intifada Incantation: Poem #8 for b.b.L.", Directed by Desire: The Complete Poems of June Jordan

Party down, Scott Daniel Ellison

Jeremy Miranda (American), End of Day, 2025, Acrylic on panel