Bonfire of Dreams

Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta, and Maria Velho da Costa, tr. by Helen R. Lane, from The Three Marias: New Portuguese Letters; “Fátima”

from Franz Kafka's "Letters to Felice"

Tawanda Mulalu, from Please Make Me Pretty, I Don't Want to Die: Poems; “Good Long Poem”

[Text ID: I felt as if the sky was torn off my life.]

if the sun wrote a letter to the moon.

as simple as that

— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

Pedro Salinas, tr. by Ruth Katz Crispin, from Memory in my Hands: The Love Poetry of Pedro Salinas; “Long Lament (Forgive Me If I Wait A Few More Years)”

Details: Ghost clouds - Les Nuages Fantômes. Ca. 1897, by Richard Riemerschmid.

Jana Briķe (Latvian, b. 1980, Riga, Latvia) - Adam's Dream, 2025, Paintings: Oil on Canvas

Pedro Salinas, tr. by Ruth Katz Crispin, from Memory in my Hands: The Love Poetry of Pedro Salinas; “Long Lament (Forgive Me If I Wait A Few More Years)”

Chelsea Dingman, from "Blood Moon"

Tishani Doshi, from A God at the Door; “Survival”

Joy Sullivan, from “These Days People Are Really Selling Me On California”, Instructions for Traveling West

Tracy K. Smith, from “Don’t You Wonder, Sometimes?”, Life on Mars