— Triata Mateer, Honeybee

— Rebecca Tamás, from “Witch.”

April 5, 1915 Letters to Felice by Franz Kafka First published : 1973

1. Flame Nebula / 2. Orion Nebula

“The Flame Nebula sits on the eastern hip of Orion the Hunter, a constellation most easily visible in the northern hemisphere during winter evenings. The constellation of Orion is prominent in the evening sky throughout the world from about December through April of each year.” 🌌 WISE, NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer.

2 April, 1937 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov

sleep is the first house

(excerpt) Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

Ferdinand Hodler, "Night" (detail) // Pierre Jahan, Nu Plain-chant (1947)

(excerpt) Eileen Myles, "Universal Cycle", The Importance of Being Iceland

Sara Stout, "Paris Bed" // Alex Venezia

(excerpt) Adrienne Rich, Twenty One Love Poems ("Poem XII")

Mark English, "Couple" (1933) // Kenney Mencher, "A Married Couple"

(excerpt) Walt Whitman, "When I Heard at the Close of Day"

Łukasz Stokłosa, "Untitled" (2014) // Matt Lambert for Dazed

(excerpt) Jeanette Wintersion, "Disappearance I", The World and Other Places

seeking, yearning, reaching hands

Christian Dior Haute Couture Spring/Summer 1998 Designed By: John Galliano