to the young who want to die by Gwendolyn Brooks

Love and Goodbye, Rala Choi

"How can I ...?", Eghishe Charents (translated by metamorphesque)

'george wright's garden in dorset, england' in livingsculpture - paul cooper (2001)

Leonard Cohen, "Beneath My Hands"

Leonard Cohen, "Summer-Haiku"

yes dog motif, yes pomegranate symbolism, yes fig tree metaphor, I hear you, but when are we going to talk about a walnut? you lower yourself to pick it up, knees wet and dirty with mud, you hold the earthly pebble coated in a layer of skin, scalp like, and you think if you just break it open with one sharp sting of the hammer that there would be a sweet reward in the centre, a fruit of your labour, but it is bitter and sad, and shaped like viscera, and your fingers are stained a yellow brown that will never wash out. when

Dunya Mikhail, Diary of a wave outside the sea (trans. Elizabeth Winslow and Dunya Mikhail) [ID'd]

"I did not do what was written...", Henrik Edoyan (translated by metamorphesque)

Langston Hughes, “Litany.” Selected poems of Langston Hughes

embrace

Briony Marshall (Peaceful embrace or the melting of boundaries), Stephan Sinding (To Mennesker), Gustav Vigeland (Kiss), William Zorach (Embrace), Antonio Canova (Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss)

— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

1. 'Trinker' ('Drinker'), a drawing by Franz Kafka.

2. Sketches by Kafka, from the collection on display. Ardon Bar Hama, National Library

— April 13, 1922 / Franz Kafka diaries

Vardges Petrosyan, an Armenian writer

Love Is on your way!

Thanks for your translation and writing, you are precious!

I'm awaiting it with my arms wide open!

Thank you, dear 🧡🌻

do you know the icelandic poet Jón Kalman Stefánsson? I am reading his work and will probably pick one of his poem to read out loud at my next book club meeting.

it is called "God is a dog who dreams good dreamings" (translation mine, sorty if it's incorrect).

The title sounds mighty promising, love! Thanks for the recommendation 🧡 (book club meetings? A dream! How are you enjoying them so far?)