But Not Forgotten

by Dorothy Parker

I think, no matter where you stray, That I shall go with you a way. Though you may wander sweeter lands, You will not soon forget my hands, Nor yet the way I held my head, Nor all the tremulous things I said. You still will see me, small and white And smiling, in the secret night, And feel my arms about you when The day comes fluttering back again. I think, no matter where you be, You’ll hold me in your memory And keep my image, there without me, By telling later loves about me.

choking on your own blood all by yourself, beautiful?

Mock Orange

by Louise Glück

It is not the moon, I tell you. It is these flowers lighting the yard. I hate them. I hate them as I hate sex, the man’s mouth sealing my mouth, the man’s paralyzing body — and the cry that always escapes, the low, humiliating premise of union — In my mind tonight I hear the question and pursuing answer fused in one sound that mounts and mounts and then is split into the old selves, the tired antagonisms. Do you see? We were made fools of. And the scent of mock orange drifts through the window. How can I rest? How can I be content when there is still that odor in the world?

Seasons -9"x12" PRINT by TheArtofDanialRyan

差し込む光。

A Country Called Song

by Najwan Darwish tr. Kareem James Abu-Zeid

I lived in a country called Song: Countless singing women made me a citizen, and musicians from the four corners composed cities for me with mornings and nights, and I roamed through my country like a man roams through the world.

My country is a song, and as soon as it ends, I go back to being a refugee.

It's such a mervyn peake dead rat poem morning

One of the poems ever.

Into the Light. New cover for the New Yorker.

Pierpaolo Rovero (Italian b.1974), Paris Plays, 2016, Digital painting

"wow my dash is so violent today!!!... Oh wait it's March"

some of y’all didn’t have a bootleg dvd guy your dad somehow knew growing up and it shows

Smug jug moodboard

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