Let go, or be dragged

[“hope” is the new thing with feathers–] by emily dickinson

Miller Oberman, “On Trans”

Octavio Paz, ‘The House of Glances’ (selected lines), A Tree Within (trans. Eliot Weinberger)

So real first of all

why not have the reader re-read a sentence now and then? it won't hurt him....

Joy Sullivan, from “Culpable”, Instructions for Traveling West

cross stitch, words from Jenny Holzer's Livings, 1980-1982

Jeanette Winterson, from Lighthousekeeping

Wildness Before Something Sublime Leila Chatti

Octavio Paz, ‘The House of Glances’ (selected lines), A Tree Within (trans. Eliot Weinberger)

Power Ballad, 2019, by Joseph Yaeger 122.5 x 152 cm,  watercolour on gessoed canvas

Earl by Louis Jenkins

Leila Chatti, "Postcard from Gone"

And when I looked down, I shattered and reformed so many times, you know, I couldn't catch a clear look at myself. ]

— Jim Harrison, from “The Davenport Lunar Eclipse,” Complete Poems, ed. Joseph Bednarik (Copper Canyon Press, 2021)

2.4 by hagan nguyen, 2022, hahnemuhle metallic rag

The Crying Book, Heather Christle