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— Nika Turbina, tr. by Elaine Feinstein, from First Draft: Poems; “Lie,”

— Bella Akhmadulina, from The Garden; “Features of an Artist’s Studio” (Tr. F.D. Reeve)

Anne Carson, from Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

Chalice of Saint John the Evangelist. Hans Memling ~ ca.1470/1475 National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Bibliothèque Infernale

— Vita Sackville-West, from “Solitude,” published c. January 1938 (via violentwavesofemotion)

Tityus (1632) José de Ribera

— Lahraeb Munir, from “lazarus,” concave in a convex heart