she still emits the softest glow

Izumi Shikibu, excerpt of “Even If I Now Saw You—”, trans. by Jane Hirshfield with Mariko Aratani in The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono No Komachi & Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan (via antigonick)

— Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Tom Stoppard 

green, green is my sister’s house | Mary Oliver

Chelsea Dingman, “Things I Never Give Myself Permission to Say,”

Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra

Alejandra Pizarnik, Selected Poems: Poems Uncollected in Books (1956-1960); from 'Approximations', tr. Cecilia Rossi

Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning

Margaret Atwood, from Power Politics

— Daphne du Maurier, My Cousin Rachel, 1951

Euripides’ Andromache (tr. Deborah Roberts)

I wanted to ask, Katie Maria

In the name of Love, Katie Maria

Eden Robinson, “Writing Prompts for the Broken-hearted”

only the cracks of June