We Lived Happily During The War, Ilya Kaminsky

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, Book 1 “Inferno,” Canto 5 [tr. James (2013)]

"Delay", Leonard Cohen

Live slowly enough to think deeply about God.

Pride & Prejudice, dir. Joe Wright

“Well, even great celestial hieroglyphs / Are bodies of dust illuminated, and if / The heavens can be both sacred and dust / Oh, maybe so can the rest of us”

- Hieroglyphs, Eurus, The Oh Hellos

sorry i can't tonight.. my spring melancholy is developing into hysteria

Lilacs after rain

Photograph from June 2024

"I still feel that poetry is not medicine — it's an X-ray. It helps you see the wound and understand it. We all feel alienated because of this continuous violence in the world. We feel alone, but we feel also together. So we resort to poetry as a possibility for survival. However, to say I survived is not so final as to say, for example, I'm alive. We wake up to find that the war survived with us."

Dunya Mikhail, Revisiting Iraq Through The Eyes Of An Exiled Poet

Franz Kafka, 1912

also a poem from the new, unreleased collection. very possibly my own all-time favourite.