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Mary Oliver, from Worm Moon in “Twelve Moons”

#march

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Every time I feel close to understanding the world the white kettle on my stove sounds and I rise, attending to it with annoyance and the pleasure of the unmade cup of tea. This is what it’s like to live in March or perhaps always, an unconvincing word in any context. Blue-gold on night’s branches what part do we take in the play? Whose turn is it to perform competence and knowledge in the absence of both? Unable to feel anything against the wind I know it is spring. Time tells me so. Never (equally as unconvincing) have I been someone with faith in order and human law. Love is unpredictable. Spring arrives regardless.

— Alex Dimitrov, “March,” in Love and Other Poems

#march

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My love is a dog from Hell, Julia Soboleva

#love and fear

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It is a chill blue December day; gloomy, icy, transparent. I am still resting. I am resting and resting-and sit about reading and relaxing,

Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Aurelia Plath written c. December 1960

#december #winter

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i just feel like “what if the trauma we go through is usually not noble but purposeless and terrible and the things we develop to keep us alive often change us for the worse” is one of the most important realizations you can come to in terms of like. empathizing with your fellow man and yet whenever that theme shows up in fiction so many people are immediately like its either PERFECT VICTIM OR IRREDEEMABLY EVIL. open the door and walk out of the dichotomy

#on the importance of story

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love & hunger

1. caitlin conlon x 2. ellen o’connell whittet, what you become in flight 3. unknown 4. ethel cain, strangers 5. @weaksorry x 6. hilma af kint, no. 4 7. unknown 8. anna green, the heart rate of a mouse 9. unknown 10. unknown

#hunger

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madisen kuhn

#august

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Carlie Hoffman, from "High Bridge Park"

#august

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Fernando Pessoa, from “The Book of Disquiet”

#summer #june

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― Emily Dickinson

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When you say my name I hear what love is supposed to sound like.

Hadinet Tekie/ Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles/ Mahmoud Darwish, Rita and the Rifle/ Arijit Singh, Laal Ishq/ Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care/ Kailash Kher, Teri Deewani

#longing and devotion

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A comic from the book Above the Dreamless Dead: World War I in Poetry and Comics commemorating the World Wars. The veterans of the first world war discuss commemorating the conflict, but are overshadowed by the looming horror of the second world war. In the final panels the view tracks round from the first world war memorial to reveal the names of that generation’s children, in turn killed in the second world war. 

#wartime poetry

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Talin Tahajian, “It’s November again” [ID in ALT]

#novemeber

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e.e. cummings, “who are you,little i”, Complete Poems: 1904-1962

[Text ID: “who are you,little i // (five or six years old) / peering from some high // window;at the gold /// of november sunset // (and feeling:that if day / has to become night // this is a beautiful way)”]

#november

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musings on september

― Dominic Riccitello, Huang O, Haruki Murakami, Karina Borowicz (artwork by Michael Dudash) 

#september

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Time is nothing.

Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveller's Wife //Illustration by Lesley Imgart

#ghosts