sit and rot

would you call a bear brave for standing in a new construction suburb or would you recognize the unfamiliar world they built around him

Leila Chatti, from "Postcard from Gone"

//Arthur Miller, The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts

Nasr Abdel Aziz Eleyan | A Girl’s Dream (1977)

Mary Oliver, from “Hum Hum”, A Thousand Mornings

Andrea Gibson, Birthday

― Ovid, Metamorphoses

‘Moonlit Dreams’ by Gabriel Ferrier, c. 1874.

Bianca Stone, from What Is Otherwise Infinite: Poems; “God Searches for God”

[Text ID: “Your hands have a strange clarity. Have you been walking among the stars?”]

Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Irving Penn - Iceland Poppy (2006)

Internet Archive

from blood, wings by susie benes

Augustín Gómez-Arcos, The Carnivorous Lamb

Marina Tsvetaeva, excerpt from Poem of the End, Selected Poems (trans. Elaine Feinstein, with Angela Livingstone)

what resembles the grave but isn’t, anne boyer // i didn’t apologize to the well, mahmoud darwish (trans. fady joudah).