Michelle Hulan, “The Universe, as in One Last Song for the Lonely Hearts”, Chestnut Review

Mary Oliver, from “We Should Be Well Prepared”, Red Bird

[text id: if there's something that loathes me more than my very being, it's my yearning. / i am yearning / in its most disgusting form.]

— María Casares, from a letter to Albert Camus written c. March 1952

Sylvia Plath, from the draft of "Poppies in July"

(excerpted from Leila Chatti's poem: "Tea", published in Missouri Review)

euripides, trans. anne carson, herakles / mark perlberg, “in my next life” / mary oliver, “we should be well prepared” / erykah badu, “next lifetime”

Ed Ruscha, Cowboy Picture, 2003

An Interview with Jenny Slate, by Sara Black McCulloch

in my head you're alive and we sit down for dinner and talk it all out

— Friedrich Nietzsche, from a letter to Malwida von Meysenbug wr. c. 1876

Seraphine Saintclair, “Star Robed Silence”