the swamps are pink with june

Jimmy Santiago Baca, from “I Am Offering This Poem”

Toni Morrison

Text ID: And I'll always have regrets for everything I do, everything I've gained, everything I've lost, good and bad,

[text ID: I just want a humble, murderously simple thing: that a person be glad when I walk into the room.]

[text ID: How in deep sleep sometimes we get well. / So you can believe me, in the far deeper / sleep (these new apple leaves, maybe) we are all going / to be perfectly all right.]

Sophocles, Philoctetes

Erika L. Sánchez, from "Departure"

— Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body (via merulae)

Louise Glück, from “March.”

— Alida Nugent (via icarusgf)

Gabriela Mistral, tr. by Randall Couch, From Madwomen: The Locas Mujeres Poems of Gabriela Mistral, a Bilingual Edition; “Cassandra”

— Malin Rydén, Fallen Hero: Rebirth (via antigonick)

— Rebecca Lindenberg, excerpt of “Love, An Index”, from Love, An Index (via antigonick)

Edgar Allan Poe, from a letter to Helen Whitman featured in “The last letters of Edgar Allan Poe to Sarah Helen Whitman,”

Edna St. Vincent Millay, Collected Poems

Mary Oliver, "Evidence." Devotions

— Kerry Banazek, from section iv of “As an Experiment,” Seneca Review (vol. 40, no. 2, Fall 2010)  (via antigonick)