Amal El-Mohtar, From The Honey Month; “Day 27: Leatherwood Honey”

“A nymph came pirouetting, under white Rotating petals, in a vernal rite To kneel before an altar in a wood Where various articles of toilette stood.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire (via starpleiades)

“I was afraid of love, of being taken away. Everyone afraid of love is afraid of death.”

— Louise Glück, “Timor Mortis” from Vita Nova

I have so much love in me that I would like to cry.  

Simone de Beauvoir, Kayleb Rae Candrilli, Sylvia Plath, Clarice Lispector

buy me a coffee

“There’s a soft spot in everything Our fingers touch, the one place where everything breaks When we press it just right. The past is like that with its arduous edges and blind sides, The whorls of our fingerprints embedded along its walls Like fossils the sea has left behind.”

— Charles Wright, from “Two Stories,” The Other Side of the River (Random House, 1984)

Greg Sellers, Undone Like Her Hair Come Evening, 10 May 2022

embrace (II), peter wever

Jessica Silversaga for A Doll’s House magazine, 2011.

Phyllis Shafer, Pennyroyal Retreat, 2013, oil on linen on board, 20 × 16 inches.

Christian Cowan SS RTW 22’