Perfumes For The  Bombshell Scholar/Student/Librarian

‘Flowering Trees of the Orient’ (1921).

Garden catalogue from A. E Wohlert, the Garden Nurseries.

 U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library.

archive.org

Maybe I am just a crazy bitch with good pussy

I don’t have a guidebook for love. One day it’s a flower I wear on my jacket, on another, it’s a dagger hidden in our bed, on another, it’s a flame that sears. Still, on another, it’s a sugar cube dissolving sweetly on my tongue.

Nizar Qabbani, tr. by Nayef al-Kalali, from Republic of Love: Selected Poems; “Give Me Love, Turn Me Green”

“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)

my mom was murdered last week leaving me without permanent housing, work, and my personal items. please boost this fund to support me in completing her end of life services:

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In loving memory of Khalilah S. Elam, organized by Akeila Elam

Khalilah Elam was murdered in her home on September 2nd, 2022. She left behind a nex… Akeila Elam needs your support for In loving memory o

always choose to be with someone who is emotionally intelligent. don’t get caught up in the fact that you are loved, because love comes easy. but loving someone in the way they need, and understanding why they need to be loved like that is what a relationship is about.

‘Children of Shatila’ (Lebanon, 1998) film by Mai Masri. In this scene the youth of the Palestinian refugee camp interview an elder with a video camera.

Fernando Pessoa, A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems

Cherry Harvest