Love So Deep That Every Thought Is Like A Little Prayer For You

From the National Geographic cover on IRAN, July 1999 (Volume 196, No. 1)

How many incarcerated people actually need to be rehabilitated, really? How many people just need a decent income, or better quality of life overall, or steady childcare, or to not be punished for made-up crimes?

Danielle McKinney (American, 1981) - Shelter (2023)

“The earth turned to bring us closer, it spun on itself and within us, and finally joined us together in this dream.”

— Eugenio Montejo, from “The Earth Turned to Bring Us Closer,” The Trees: Selected Poems (Salt Publishing, 2004)

Day after day I think of you as soon as I wake up. Someone has put cries of birds on the air like jewels.

—Anne Carson, “Short Talk On Le Bonheur D’Etre Bien Aimée“  from Short Talks. Brick Books, 1992

Vicente Aleixandre, ed. by Lewis Hyde, from A Longing for the Light: Selected Poems; “The Explosion”

[Text ID: “I devoted myself to one endless afternoon. / I’ve loved you every moment of that afternoon.”]

“I whet my lips to speak your name. To kiss your hands, curling into the posture of prayer, they could almost have been carved from stone. I swear: If idolatry was my only sin, then it’s because god wasn’t watching.”

— Torrin A. Greathouse, from “Ekphrasis on Nude Selfie as Portrait of San Sebastian,” Poetry (vol. 221, no. 2, November 2022)

Mai Masri - Frontiers of Dreams and Fears (2001)

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Perfumes for the  Bombshell Scholar/Student/Librarian

Jazz Club by Maison Martin Margiela

1888 Xerjoff

Library by Solstice Scents

Milano Caffe by Abdes Salaam Attars Perfumes

Whispers in the Library by Maison Martin Margiela

O, Unknown! by Imaginary Authors

Coco Eau de Toilette by Chanel

Oeillet Pourpre by Guerlain 

Nirvana Bourbon by Elizabeth and James