been thinking about it since i read it 

Mary Oliver, from “the fourth sign of the zodiac” published in Blue Horses

James Baldwin.

Common Frank Bidart banger (from "In the Ruins," in Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016)

we have not long to love by tennessee williams

Louise Glück in her garden. “friends, conversations, gardens. daily life. it's what we have”

happy i've never been wanted anywhere thursday

i feel totally normal about this and the scope of my desire is completely average

— Ocean Vuong, from Threshold in Night Sky with Exit Wounds

snowdrops by Louise Glück

“vivisection (you’re going to break my heart)” by Marty McConnell from The Best American Poetry 2014, edited by Terrance Hayes and David Lehman.

Hieu Minh Nguyen, from “The New Decade”

Robert Goolrick, from The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life

— Sunrise, by Louise Glück

this year i mean to be a elephant by Wendy Xu

— Kazuo Ishiguro // 2017 Nobel prize acceptance speech