Mind my mind.

[text ID: And once again, only the Small Things were said. The Big Things lurked unsaid inside.]

Louise Glück, from “Mutable Earth”, Poems 1962-2012

Alain de Botton, Essays in Love [transcript in ALT]

— Jennifer S. Cheng, from So We Must Meet Apart

Zhang Jiuling, ed. by Jane Portal, from Chinese Love Poetry; “Looking at the moon and longing for a distant lover”

Edna St. Vincent Millay, from “Afternoon on a Hill,” Collected Poems

Mahmoud Darwish, from Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems; “The Flute Cried,”

Little beaver taking a little sip

i’m not sure i’m capable of being loved right now / i feel safe in my quiet way of living and telling my secrets to thread & paper / i don’t know what i’d say if you asked me to know myself / more

Fernando Pessoa ― The Book of Disquiet