all I do is kiss you through the bars of a rhyme

“Cut the Rug (Cake)” ☀ Alana Jones-Mann ◇ Sponge cake with a 400-thread count

Orhan Pamuk “My Name Is Red”

Kapka Kassabova, from Someone Else’s Life; “How to survive in the desert”

L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

the unbearable heaviness of girlhood / Su Xinyu / Lucie Brock-Broido

Trista Mateer, from a poem featured in her collection titled The Dogs I Have Kissed

[Text ID: “If I were a paint, I’d be a watercolor. / Indecisive and hard to control, / no one wants to handle watercolors / unless they are brave, patient, or mad.”]

─ Hisham Siddiqi

[text ID: Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.]

— Rebecca Dinerstein, The Sunlit Night (via fragmentarie)

January 27, 1924 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3]