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A whitetailed deer eating moss from a river [X]

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'Ritual for Autumn Equinox', by Bhanu Kapil. Published in Ignota.

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more blogs posting poetry? reply or send me your faves 💌

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Mieko Shiomi, Mirror, 1963

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To shut our eyes is Travel. The seasons understand this.

—Emily Dickinson, as quoted in Richard D. Sewall, The Life of Emily Dickinson

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Kek Lok Si Temple, Penang ✨

photo by me

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“Out of jasmine the night’s blood streams white. 

Your perfume, my weakness and your secret, follows me like a snakebite”

—  Mahmoud Darwish 

(via vitrina:)

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“Ruins that are not ruins, but hymns of luminous memory.”

— Hélène Cixous, from Coming to Writing and Other Essays, tr. by Deborah Jenson

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Ada Limón, from a poem titled "Wonder Woman", featured in The Carrying: Poems

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I have been staring at the tree for a long time now. I am reminded of the righteousness I had before the scorch of time. I miss who I was. I miss who we all were, before we were this: half alive to the brightening sky, half dead already.

Ada Limón, from 'Salvage'

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“O you gods, you long-limbed animals, you astride the sea and you unhammocked in the cyprus grove and you with your hair full of horses, please. My thoughts have turned from the savor of plums to the merits of pity – touch and interrupt me, chasten me with waking, humble me for wonder again.”

— Rebecca Lindenberg, Litany

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Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments (trans. Richard Howard) [transcript in ALT]