his kiss, the riot

— Blithe Saxon, an excerpt from Because It’s Her (via lunamonchtuna)

Remember me before I was a heap of salt, The laughing child who seldom did as she was told or came when she was called, The merry girl who became Lot’s bride, The happy woman who loved her wicked city. Do not remember me with pity. I saw you plodding on ahead into the desert of your pitiless faith. Those springs are dry; that earth is dead. I looked back, not forward, into death. Forgiving rains dissolve me, and I come still disobedient, still happy, home.

— Robert Cording, from section 2, “June Prayer,” of “Four Prayers,” Image (no. 56, Winter 2007-2008)

oscillogram and spectrogram of the sentence "Where were you a year ago"

there is only one of everything, margaret atwood

Words by Andrea Gibson

Louise Glück, from "The Encounter"

Iphigenia asks the Pythia about her fate • April 2026

Caitlin Bailey, Solve for Desire; from 'Incantare'

attributed to Lily Tomlin; Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky; ilene_cecelia, reddit; Pratchett, Night Watch; Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky; Pirkei Avot 2:21; Ursula K. le Guin, Tehanu

— The Hallowed Hunt (World of the Five Gods) by Lois McMaster Bujold

TEXT ID: Bear in mind me, Who have forgotten nothing,

Franny Choi, Soft Science

— Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger

Remember me before I was a heap of salt, The laughing child who seldom did as she was told or came when she was called, The merry girl who became Lot’s bride, The happy woman who loved her wicked city. Do not remember me with pity. I saw you plodding on ahead into the desert of your pitiless faith. Those springs are dry; that earth is dead. I looked back, not forward, into death. Forgiving rains dissolve me, and I come still disobedient, still happy, home.

‘Agamemnon,’ Aeschylus (translated by Anne Carson)