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Nathaniel Handal,  from “Love Letter,” Poetry (March 2021)

[Text ID: “ Perhaps that is the wind blowing through the house, this release of eternal searching and finding you there, calling me your forever, naming me your always, to have and to hold, till death do we part and start all over again looking only for each other’s hearts, taking my life in your hands eternal, marrying me to the heavens, latching me to the star-trail of your white dress, in this orbital dance, this lift and spin, this knowing from within that all my poems after this will be different because you are my wife.”]

ilya kaminsky (deaf republic), loved like a flower bouquet (花束みたいな恋をした), god’s own country, richard siken (driving, not washing), like crazy

Ocean Vuong, from “Beautiful Short Loser”, Time Is a Mother

Mary Oliver, from “From the Book of Time”, Devotions

when you love someone, and they're in everything mitski, strawberry blonde // poeticsuggestions // MUNA, everything // hanya yanagihara, a little life

Eileen Myles, “Peanut Butter.” I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 1975 - 2014

‘but you’re fine with kindness. you wait for me to feel / safe’ (x)

also think it is the opposite of Jack Gilbert’s The Forgotten Dialect Of The Heart...

oh.....

i’m gonna be sick

dorianne laux, i never wanted to die // gabrielle calvocoressi, most days i want to live