Captive, Nagatacho 永田町

Erika Lee Sears (American), Night Lights, 2026, Oil on birch wood panel

Asli Mahdi, "Origin Story #4", pub. The Offing [ID'd]

Adrift Mark Nepo

Credits: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)

May Sarton, The Poetry of May Sarton

Malcolm T. Liepke: In essence, I believe that no matter how alone we may feel in the world—how we imagine we are experiencing things in a vacuum—we all share the same human experiences. We all have the same basic needs for connection, love and understanding. I try to reach those universal needs; it’s what’s primal in art. I try to say it through mood, color, atmosphere and texture. Bottom line: It’s the [emotion], and I just want to get it out. It’s difficult to express through words things that are so beautiful that they have no words. I can’t explain it. I have to paint it. (1) Storytime, (2) Two Friends, (3) Comfy Chair, (4) Three in A Bar

Maggie Nelson, Bluets

Langston Hughes, “Litany.” Selected poems of Langston Hughes

Hanif Abdurraqib, "Glamor on the West Streets / Silver Over Everything"

Room clutter in studio ghibli films.

Study of clouds by Johan Christian Dahl (1788 - 1857)

Fortesa Latifi, from The Truth About Grief.

w.s. merwin