“You Are Worth Finding. Worth Knowing. Worth Loving. You And All Your One Million Layers. Always Hold

Cameron Awkward-Rich, from "Meditations in an Emergency", Dispatch

Anne Carson, from “The Glass Essay”, Glass, Irony, and God

anne sexton

it’s small joys saturday y’all let’s get it

— Franz Kafka asking Felice Bauer to marry him (Letters to Felice)

adam wakes up, probes his side. rib gone, wound sticky. god's fingers have touched a place that will never be touched again. how does adam not curl up, swell and fall, beg god to touch him again. to touch him everywhere else. not just ribs but cheek, inner thigh, lap. the worst part of the side-wound is not that god penetrated you but that he won't do it again

hey sorry it's just that i don't think i'm very good at being a person. thanks for letting me try with you, anyway.

Forugh Farrokhzad, tr. by Sholeh Wolpé, from “Reborn”, Sin

Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra