astral;ˈastr(ə)l/

It's out!! The album is here.

From Chen Chen's "Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency" (American Poets Continuum Series, 194)

i think my body is falling in pieces i think my blood is passing me by

Chloe Gong These Violent Delights / I.B. Vyache Excerpt 07.01.21 / Silas Denver Melvin excerpt from Grit: A Poetry Collection / Christa Wolf excerpt from Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays / Ethel Cain Family Tree (Intro) / unknown / Fiona Apple Left Alone / Richard Siken The Worm King's Lullaby / Gwen Benaway Holy Wild

I've Endured, Now What?

Blue Iris - Mary Oliver / So This Is All I Will Ever Be? - Fatima Aamer Bilal / Vive, Vive - Traci Brimhall

One day, your skull will be as empty as a conch shell on a fence post,

full of wind and gentle quiet.

Today, it’s a cauldron of ghosts.

Flesh and electricity.

Water and memory.

A machine that makes reality.

Now. Here. Your skull is the garden where fact flowers into meaning.

(From the poetry collection Love Notes from the Hollow Tree by Jarod K. Anderson.)

Lamento encarnado, by Emil Melmoth, 2022

the urge to disappear into the forest and become local folklore

{Quotes: Alejandra Pizarnik, Approximations/Simone de Beauvoir, from Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 2, 1928-9; Sunday, October 7/chen chen, nature poem in ‘when i grow up i want to be a list of further possibilities’/sue zhao/ Sylvia path / Maggie Nelson, Bluets/Richard siken/Ingeborg Bachmann, In the Storm of Roses from ‘The Poem for the Reader’, tr. Mark Anderson ,paintings: pinterest}

on loneliness with anis mojgani, in the pockets of small gods / ocean vuong, someday i'll love ocean vuong / sophocles, trans. anne carson, antigonick / maggie nelson, bluets

{Sarah Kane, Sarah Kane: Complete Plays: "Crave"/ Mahmoud Darwish/ Oliver Masters/ Mary Oliver, When Did It Happen?/ Ryan O' Connell/ Unknown/ Victoria Chang, "Dear D", Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief/ Unknown/ Frank Bidart, Half-Light: Collected Poems, "End of a Friendship"/ Marion, from the film Another Woman, written & directed by Woody Allen (Orion Pictures, 1988)/ Charles Baudelaire, Poems in Prose, "A Hemisphere in Your Hair"/ F. Scott Fitzgerald/ Mihail Sebastian, For Two Thousand Years/ Anne Carson, Glass, Irony and God/ Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore/ Donte Collins, "Grief, Again"/ Joyce Carol Oates, We Were Mulvaneys (Plume, 1997)/Pictures from Pinterest}

Stella Lunardy

- A.R Asher

Clementine Von Radics, from In A Dream You Saw A Way To Survive; “You are on the floor crying”

Alice Notley, In The Pines

Sylvia Plath, Lesbos

Mitski, Nobody

Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Vera

E.E. Cummings, I Carry Your Heart with Me

Lucille Clifton, Mother-Tongue: After The Flood

Robert Lax

Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Vi Khi Nao, Fish in Exile

Aurora, Exist For Love

Margaret Atwood, Late Poems

repetition in poetry // part iv

(part i) (part ii) (part iii) (part v)

“Eyes” by Karl Sisson.