we protect each other by Abby S (via okayodysseus)
Linda Pastan, from “Why Are Your Poems so Dark?” published in Poetry (via lifeinpoetry)
Emilia Phillips, from “Heavy” published in Tongue (via lifeinpoetry)
“I didn’t read much — watched the sun go down — just a plain yellow sunset and one star came out — I wanted you when the yellow light came in and it was all so quiet — the day had been very windy — just to be quiet by you — while the sky turned from yellow to cold white moonlight —”
— Georgia O’Keeffe, from a letter to Alfred Stieglitz featured in My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933
Nikki Wallschlaeger, from “Vertical View of a City,” published in Boston Review (via lifeinpoetry)
You asked the part of me I kept hidden. It was every softness I didn’t give them,
the life awake, whole, trembling.
— Nomi Stone, from “War Game: Plug In the Role and Play,” published in Berfrois
“You should be here. We should work together—read each other’s work at night—fire each other, keep each other. This is a great crime, this separation.”
Anaïs Nin, from a letter to Henry Miller written c. August 1933
when you dis/trust you’re dis/trusting the body when you plan you’re unsure about the body when you mind you’re not there in that body you’re still so far away
— Paige Lewis, from “When You,” published in The Rumpus
Paisley Rekdal, from “Gokstadt/Ganymede,” published in Michigan Quarterly Review (via lifeinpoetry)
“I want to look back and say that I was alive. That I didn’t turn my back. That I tried. That I was happy.”
— Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited (via weltenwellen)
Rosmarie Waldrop, from section 5 of “IV. Unaccountable Lapses” in “Hölderlin Hybrids,” Blindsight (New Directions, 2003) (via memoryslandscape)
Sennah Yee, “Blade Runner (1982),” How Do I Look? (via lifeinpoetry)
Chloe Honum, from “Stopping at a Gas Station on the Third Day of Driving Across the Country” published in Blackbird (via lifeinpoetry)
Andrea Juele, from “Note to Self,” published in Aster(ix)
Liz Bowen, published in Dream Pop Press (via lifeinpoetry)
