Emily Dickinson, From Her Poem Titled "1188," Featured In The Emergency Poet

― Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart

Chaos. The Genesis (Ivan Aivazovsky, 1841)

cypripedium calceolus, a wild orchid native to missouri

2009 season, yellow lady slippers by richard bonnett

I love getting older i don’t know what anything means

w. h. auden, marginalia

Maybe you didn’t personally drop bombs on innocent Yemenis, but the guy whose plane you performed maintenance on did. Maybe you didn’t shoot that 14 year old Iraqi kid who got too close to wire, but the guy you provided medical care did. Maybe you didn’t sexually assault that woman in Okinawa, but the guy who ate in your mess hall did. The vast majority of military service roles are non-combat. Their only purpose is to enable the combatants who carry out the crimes of the American empire.

Tennessee Williams, from The Theatre of Tennessee Williams; "Talk to me like the Rain and Let me Listen,"