The Handmaiden, (Unnamed) By Me, Moonlight, Come Into The Water By Mitski, The Handmaiden, Once More

“No wonder I am mesmerized by your tongues’ small fires glowing with desire.”

— M.J. Iuppa, from “Marigolds,” Amethyst Review (2022)

Chen Chen, from "weep ode #99"

Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score

the next kiss i kiss will leave us feelin richer

Tongues Untied (Marlon Riggs, 1989)

Robby Carney and LZ Granderson by Emmanuel Sanchez Monsalve for Out Magazine , Feb 2020

Mai Masri - Frontiers of Dreams and Fears (2001)

Nizar Qabbani

“I ask myself what I will do here on earth with this worthless, defiant body. And I hear my body answer: —What will I do with this spark that believed itself the sun and this breath that believed itself the wind?”

— Dulce María Loynaz, tr. James O’Connor, Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems; “XXXII”  (via futurefae)

drawing by Evan M Cohen from his comic “Oceans”