Maeda Chikara

Rain Is Over (2011)

I’ve been lost but I'm here now. You're the only person who has ever been able to find me.

* Sue Zhao

Peter Frie

Lithographs in colors (127/170)

Wanting her was so close to prayer— I should not. But it was July,

* Natalie Diaz, Waist and Sway

Naomi Tydeman

Marsh Moon

There you are, and I am very glad of it. You have never done anything to me that was not good; I love you tenderly.

* Gustave Flaubert, in a letter to George Sand (1876)

Gildardo Garea

Peces y otras cicatrices, 1990

I swear, I end up feeling empty, like you’ve taken something out of me, and I have to search my body for the scars, thinking Did he find that one last tender place to sink his teeth in?

* Richard Siken, Wishbone

Teresita Fernández

Night Writing (Tristan and Isolde), 2011

I think I get so scared because I'm greedy — I want to hold onto everything, the world wants to take it away.

* Mikko Harvey, For M

tender is the heart i love you with

Lee Jeong-Lok

Decoding Scape 26, 2012

How do you learn what a feeling means? There is something I want, but I don’t know what it is. There is a word I know. But I can’t say it.

* Emma Hunsinger, How To Draw A Horse

Jiro Yoshihara

Blue Calligraphic Lines on Dark Blue, 1963

81. What I know: when I met you, a blue rush began. I want you to know, I no longer hold you responsible. * Maggie Nelson, Bluets