hills

Mary Oliver, from Upstream: Selected Essay

Peter Ilsted (Danish, 1861-1933)

musings on oranges

Alessia Di Cesare, Romero Barros, Wendy Cope, David Stevenson, Rebecca O’Connor, Andrea Kantrowitz, Nina LaCour, Augustin Rouart, Ocean Vuong, Chris Krupinski, Wendy Cope, Mickie Acierno, Jacques Prévert, Robert Spear Dunning, Wendy Cope

Abigail, Abigail, Abigail…              You are my city of joy. You are my city of joy.

The World to Come (2020)

When the day is done, my mind turns to her, and I think, with a special heat, “why are we to be separated?”

Hannibal (2013-2015) Interview with the Vampire (2022-)

musings on november

― Donald Miller, Holly Warburton, L. M. Montgomery, E. M. Forster, Anne Sexton, Kaye Donachie, Anne Sexton, Emilio Hernandez Martin, Maggie Stiefvater, Nina MacLaughlin (The Paris Review)

It is difficult to explain how his words disarmed me, how efficiently succinct and impenetrable his argument was. All my conceptions, even my guilt and my wish to die seemed utterly unimportant, and i completely forgot myself and the barbaric scene that surrounded me. For the first time in my life, I was seen.