August 2, 2025
Sometimes love is a fish-gill slit in your heart through which you learn to breathe. Married, Filing Separately by Claire McQuerry, excerpt
Sometimes love is a fish-gill slit in your heart through which you learn to breathe. Married, Filing Separately by Claire McQuerry, excerpt
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: Pastel and pencil drawing of an expansive evening sky over a darkened landscape. The sky is filled with swirling, radiating lines in …
A pair of sneakers hanging from a wire against a cloudy sky, above a building with white siding, a chimney, satellite dishes, and part of a tree visible.
My love, can it be worth it? At night my head hangs from my neck by a single hair then morning, and the pain of the healed wound and it …
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: A delicate pencil sketch of a young man's head in profile, facing left. The lines are minimal but expressive, capturing the …
In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood, like a hundred golden urns pouring out the sun. Finished …
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters. Antonio Gramsci
The moon huge, the new Blooms opening by faith. Drunk, I slept On the stairs, and the mercury lamps flared between Worlds. Drunk by Noelle Kocot, excerpt
Abstract black-and-white composition featuring a large dark sphere near the center, floating above a softly contoured, organic white shape that fades into a dark background. Two fine, curved …
the scrawls of blood I smear across that floor will compose the greatest poem in the history of the fucking world. When I Hear the Young Poets by Campbell McGrath …
maybe at night the boys spread quilts under moonlit elderberry trees moths crawl over their hay-scratched hands their eyes pulling new shapes from tree-shadows the shapes whatever they …
Sometimes a wind blows And you and I Float in love And kiss forever In a darkness The Mysteries of Love by David Lynch, excerpt
Abstract black-and-white image of ethereal, wispy light trails resembling flowing fabric or smoke, forming delicate, layered curves against a dark background. Eternity is not much longer than life …
Dragonflies drift downstream on a river, Their faces staring at the sun, Then, suddenly, there is nothing. The Epic of Gilgamesh, Tablet X, excerpt
Close-up view from underneath a large tree with thick, gnarled branches and dense green leaves; the bark is covered in carved initials and symbols. A wide, sprawling tree with …
View of Central Park Lake with people rowing boats in the foreground, and the Manhattan skyline rising in the background under an overcast sky.
It’s me, Ana… It’s me, Ana… The Spirit of the Beehive Recently watched: Fantastic Planet Friendship The Spirit of the Beehive
I feel sometimes as if I were a child who opens its eyes on the world once and sees amazing things it will never know any names for and then …
Clouds cascade over a dark mountain ridge in a dramatic display, creating the appearance of misty waterfalls beneath a pale blue sky. Mountain/Clouds, by Matt Hill A silhouette of …
Historic wooden building labeled ‘Sail Loft’ near a waterfront, with scattered planks and materials in the foreground and a calm body of water behind it.