I Have Dreamed Of You So Much That You Are No Longer Real.

and how it's hard not to always want something else, not just to let the savage grass grow.

Ada Limón, Mowing

Fragmentary Face of King Khafre

ca. 2520-2494 BCE | Old Kingdom, Egypt | Egyptian alabaster

17th century astronomical art of Maria Clara Eimmart; celestial splendor from a forgotten woman who broke the bounds of her time.

(brainpickings.org)

‘Agamemnon,’ Aeschylus (translated by Anne Carson)

green leaves / torn straight from the cross

- Agata Tuszyńska, Faith tr. Regina Grol

An attempt to intensify the horror by containing it in symmetry.

- Heather Christle, The Crying Book

I pray as if you existed.

Maria Bigoszewska, tr Regina Grol

of loveliness in the snow and faithlessness in the flood;

- Virginia Woolf, Orlando

the one that teaches water to become ice, helps grief remember how to become tears.

- Heather Christle, The Crying Book

The rain hovering over the city for days  finally fell. You were arriving after years...

Garous Abdolmalekian, Meeting tr. Ahmed Nadalizadeh and Idra Novey