temporary vows, caroline bird

preoccupied poet, maude phelps hutchins

— Almond Blossom, by Fiona Benson

orpheus in spring by Jenny George

franz wright

i was sixteen for twenty years

wet evening in April by Patrick Kavanagh

[Image ID: The poem “One Source of Bad Information”, by Robert Bly.  There’s a boy in you about three years old who hasn’t learned a thing for thirty Thousand Years. Sometime it’s a girl.  The child had to make up its mind How to save you from death. He said things like:  “Stay home. Avoid elevators. Eat only elk.”  You live with this child, but you don’t know it.  You’re in the office, yes, but live with this boy  At night. He’s uninformed, but he does want To save your life. And he has. Because of this boy  You survived a lot. He’s got six big ideas.  Five don’t work. Right now he’s repeating them to you. 

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the years by alex dimitrov

louise glück

tonight we die as a family, mohammed el-kurd

[english on the left as published in the poetry review & translated into urdu on the right by @/smuntahaali on instagram]

— Sunrise, by Louise Glück

Vicente Aleixandre, from Sound of the War; A Longing for the Light: Selected Poems, 1979

from power politics, margaret atwood

there is only one of everything, margaret atwood

excerpts from Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad

Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet