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— Dulce Maria Loynaz (tr. james o'connor), from Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems

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Time Is a Mother, Ocean Vuong

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Stephen Dunn, from “Mon Semblable”, Between Angels

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how to tell one country from another by Margaret Atwood

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Mary Oliver, from “I Will Try”, Red Bird

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“you tried to talk about it once, afterwards. you named it and laid down until it was over. you named it and you watched people walk away from you. you named it and felt ashamed. you still said its name.”

— Trista Mateer

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"The Dead Are Not Annihilated": Mortal Regret in "Wuthering Heights" - Ingrid Geerken

#grief #grieving #wuthering heights #emily bronte #the dead are not annihilated

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"The Dead Are Not Annihilated": Mortal Regret in "Wuthering Heights" - Ingrid Geerken

#grieving #grief #the dead are not annihilated #wuthering heights

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"The Dead Are Not Annihilated": Mortal Regret in "Wuthering Heights" - Ingrid Geerken

#grief #grieving #mortal regret #the dead are not annihilated

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"The Dead Are Not Annihilated": Mortal Regret in "Wuthering Heights" - Ingrid Geerken

#mortal regret #grief #grieving #the dead are not annihilated

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"The Dead Are Not Annihilated": Mortal Regret in "Wuthering Heights" - ingrid Geerken

#wuthering heights #emily bronte #religion #religion quote #ingrid geerken

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Tigers

by Eliza Griswold

What are we now but voices who promise each other a life neither one can deliver not for lack of wanting but wanting won’t make it so. We cling to a vine at the cliff’s edge. There are tigers above and below. Let us love one another and let go.

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Leila Chatti, I Dreamed I Forgot 

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Miss you. Would like to grab that chilled tofu we love. by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

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Etheridge Knight, The Essential Etheridge Knight

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“I don’t collect any objects, but I feel like when I’m writing, I am a collector of language. For instance, let’s say I start with a word like ‘snail,’ I’ll try to collect all of the language that surrounds the snail, both sonically and associatively, and then this little world starts to build around the snail, and I try to stay with it, stay with the images obsessively, to push beyond what I think is possible in the snail’s realm of language. What is that Lucie Brock-Broido quote, ‘Obsession is what gets me up the stairs at night’? Obsession is really important to following that image relentlessly, then cracking it open, trying to make more use of it. Pushing it beyond its limits. It’s funny, someone once asked me, why is there so much red in The Babies, and I thought, what red? There’s no red in The Babies. And then I looked through the entire collection, and there really is so much red that I didn’t even realize I was obsessively following. Nabokov talks about it, how writers will plot subliminal coordinates that you’re working with, and it’s like this secret thread beneath all of the poems. And then the worst question would be, in like a workshop, what does the red symbolize? You don’t want to show those insides. You want to feel them.”

— Sabrina Orah Mark interviewed in The Iowa Review

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i’ve had ‘the beauty of the world is the mouth of a labyrinth’ stuck in my head and had forgotten the full quote went this hard. can barely cope with the experience of comprehending it