we keep the wolves outside by living well

Rebecca Perry, Beauty/Beauty; from 'Kintsugi 金継ぎ'

Guillaume Apollinaire, tr. by Anne Hyde Greet, from Calligrams; “Chains,”

you can laugh at napoleon's "home in three days, don't bathe" letter to his wife, but there's more sexuality in that one line then there is in the entirety of the hypersexualized but painfully unsexy internet.

jorge luis borges, addressing a large audience in the butler library at columbia university, said, ‘a crowd is an illusion. no such thing exists. i am talking to you personally.’

glenn dean, landscapes of the west / user @petrichara

— Theodore Roethke, from “Straw for the fire.”

Mary Oliver, from “I Did Think, Let’s Go About This Slowly.” [ID in alt text]

sometimes do you ever just want to

Ode to Elliot Smith, Ending in the First Snowfall of 2003, by Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib

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