Love

after Civil War (2024) by sterling-elizabeth arcadia

the places our bodies touched were sites of pleasure, of learning.

Sep 17 •

Pillow Talk with Modigliani’s Kneeling Blue Caryatid by Andrea Jurjević

Just like god must be asleep in his recliner

Sep 13 •

and

Andrea Jurjević

Purple Cabbages by Mikko Harvey

and I was just a little diplomat from another dimension, bound by the terms of the deal I had struck at the gates of perception

Sep 10 •

Harvest by Allen Means

when i kiss someone i imagine pressing them into a surface like water

Sep 4 •

Svetlana Litvinchuk

We As Two Separate Planets by Shushanik Kurghinian

Did you see the embers of my old illusions beneath the golden tongues of flame?

Aug 29 •

Loving You Is Ordinary Heaven by Jessie McCarty

Dirt is my sound, every stretch is the soil is a bow to your stage

Aug 21 •

and

Travel by Leonard Cohen

Lost in the fields of your hair I was never lost

Aug 17 •

Every Time I Start to Fall in Love with the City Again It Starts to Rain by jason b. crawford

There are pears I greet in the morning when I am sad, I kiss them until they untie their skin for me.

Aug 4 •

A Single Woman's Bedroom by Yi Lei

To a single woman, time is like a scrap of meat: Nothing you can afford to give away.

Jul 25 •

Svetlana Litvinchuk

and

Casida of the Recumbent Woman by Federico Garcia Lorca

Your belly is a knot of roots, your lips a dawn with no outline.

Jul 18 •

Svetlana Litvinchuk

[All night I hear the noise of water sobbing.] by Alejandra Pizarnik

All night I flee from someone. I lead the chase, I lead the fugue.

Jul 4 •

Nearly a Valediction by Marilyn Hacker

trust that what comes next comes after what came first

Jun 29 •

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