“After Language” By Chaia Heller, From My Lover Is A Woman: Contemporary Lesbian Love Poems Edited

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Sappho | Leonardo Bistolfi | Safet Zec | Richard Siken | Brokeback Mountain (dir. Ang Lee) | Emery Allen | Ron Hicks | Jorge Luis Borges | Holly Warburton | Richard Siken | Joseph Lorusso

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

“Do not be afraid to suffer, give the heaviness back to the weight of the earth; mountains are heavy, seas are heavy. Even those trees you planted as children became too heavy long ago - you couldn’t carry them now. But you can carry the winds… and the open spaces…”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, tr. by Robert Bly

André Aciman

Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours: Love Poems to God; from ‘Gott spricht zu jedem nur, eh er ihn macht’, tr. Anita Barrows & Joanna Macy

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

“The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.”

— Terry Pratchett

AUGUST: THE TRUE ENDING OF A YEAR

unknown / @nobodysflower / paul d'amato / mary oliver / @gaycommunist / justine kurland / @sioltach / alida nugent / raymond carver

“So, if you are too tired to speak, sit next to me because I, too, am fluent in silence.”

— R. Arnold

THE PROBLEM WITH WANTING

Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me / Hozier, Cherry Wine / Stephanie Garber, Legandary / Anna Akhmatova, The Guest / Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch / Anaïs Nin, The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin / Marissa Meyer, Scarlet / Cassandra Clare, City of Glass / Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising / Henry James, The Turn of the Screw