A Burst of Light, Audre Lorde

Barbara Crooker, “Red Amaryllis”

Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

[text ID: It’s one of those days when everything is half-off, / half-on. My shirt, for example, which I notice / is buttoned wrong while staring in the diner window. / I think I want a slice of pecan pie, some life / sweeter than this, life my childhood in Texas. / There’s no pie today, just you, / by accident again, bent over your coffee / like the “V” the geese fly south. / It’s a fall day. Because we’re melancholy, / we kick leaves, pick up rocks to consider / tossing them at dogs. I only breathe with one lung / since you’ve been gone, you say. And I love you / with one hemisphere of my brain, / the dumb one, which forgets.]

[ID: That summer I did not go crazy / but I wore / very close / very close / to the bone.]

journal, august 1st

North Country, Mary Oliver//Holly Warburton

is it this one?

Joan Didion

inprnt

Kelly G. Wilson, Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong: A Guide to Life Liberated from Anxiety