rough draft

Tired, Langston Hughes

— Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters (Harper & Row, 1982)

— Mustafa Mahmoud, "Understanding The Qur’an: A Contemporary Approach (Amana Pubns, September 1, 2004) (via Alive on All Channels)

Paul Darde. 1888-1963. gypsum

[Text ID: “Why is a witch, if she is open-mouthed, omnivorous and rich, all skin and bones? Because what she eats eats her up.”]

[Text ID: “(X once told me that love had protected him against worldliness: coteries, ambitions, advancements, interferences, alliances, secessions, roles, powers: love had made him into a social catastrophe, to his delight.)”]

— Dave Harris, from Patricide

[Text ID: “I have read many books but I do not believe them. When it hurts we return to the banks of certain rivers.”]

Alejandra Pizarnik, tr. by Yvette Siegert, from “Extracting the Stone of Madness”, Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972

the hungers of hadewijch and eckhart, donald f. duclow // stigmata: escaping texts, hélène cixous // you are in a hotel room, joan tierney // the notebooks of malte laurids brigge, rainer maria rilke // great expectations, kathy acker // hot-hand fallacy, jasmine gibson // erotism: death and sensuality, georges bataille // cain, josé saramago // love in the time of monsters, emily palermo // a curious night for a double eclipse, j. karl bogartte.

by Adolf-Hiremy Hirschl.

— Kenneth Rexroth, excerpt of “Loneliness”, in Sacramental Acts

— Dylan Thomas, from Love in the Asylum; The Collected Poems (ed. by John Goodby)

— Christina Rossetti, from Spring

— Ilya Kaminsky, excerpt of “Praise”, in Dancing in Odessa

— Alice Koller