W O N D E R L U S T

— Megan Fernandes, “Do You Sell Dignity Here?” from I Do Everything I’m Told

I never saw a moor, Emily Dickinson / My Big Mouth, Oasis

Danez Smith, Don't Call Us Dead

"Nature Morte.", Joseph Brodsky (tr George L. Kline)

Leonard Cohen, "Summer-Haiku"

from "Letters to Véra", Vladimir Nabokov

[text id: my fist has always been clenched around the handle of an invisible suitcase. / i am always ready to leave. / there is not a single room in this world where i belong.]

Paige Lewis, "Diorama of Want"

for several decades, this poem was circulated in Black Panthers circles and attributed to George Jackson, a Black revolutionary, because it was found handwritten in his cell after he was killed. Greg Thomas, who discovered this, said it was a “mistake of radical kinship.” [more on this]

— 𝓜𝓼. 𝓜𝓲𝓼𝓪𝓷𝓽𝓱𝓻𝓸𝓹𝓮

—𝓜𝓼. 𝓜𝓲𝓼𝓪𝓷𝓽𝓱𝓻𝓸𝓹𝓮

i am his. i could be nothing better.

fucking SLAY

this full thread changed my life and i am ALWAYS going to give the full thread because the parts people cut out aren't enough for the people experiencing these things, speaking as someone who does. it, really it just makes us, made me, feel bad about my own capabilities when i saw the unfinished thread.

Vladimir Mayakovsky, from a letter featured in "Love in the Heart of Everything; The Correspondence between Vladimir Mayakovsky & Lili Brik, 1915-1930,"

Madison Julius Cawein, “Geraldine”

War of the Foxes, Richard Siken / carol rifka brunt / @.soapstore|penelope scott / @.promqueendyke / the lobster dir. yorgos lanthimos / canal street - grand central / @.kelleyspoetry / unknown artist

Mary Oliver, from "A Dream of Trees" in New And Selected Poems: Vol.I