Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus, originally published: 1977

— Levon Peter Poe

— Ocean Vuong, from On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (Penguin, 2019)

— Edna St. Vincent Millay, from a letter to Arthur Davison Ficke featured in Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Anthony Thomas Lombardi, from "self-portrait as murmuration"

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Gavin Yuan Gao, from "Wild Nothing"

Gavin Yuan Gao, from "Lullaby"

— Friedrich Schlegel, Ideas

And perhaps whatever you hope for will come true.

Giambattista Valli Spring 2024 Haute Couture

[Text ID: “I’m locked out of my home. No, I can’t recognize my home. I grabbed the wrong keys. The house has been painted a different color. There is music inside but I don’t understand the words. There is smoke inside, but nothing is burning.”]

Dunya Mikhail, from Diary of a wave outside the sea (trans. Elizabeth Winslow and Dunya Mikhail) [ID'd]