My Mother: Demonology By Kathy Acker

this is how it ends

goodbye - bo burnham/unknown/goodbye - bo burnham/goodbye - bo burnham/unknown/unknown/frank kafka/goodbye - bo burnham/holly havrilesky/unknown/unknown/unknown/goodbye - bo burnham

by zeewipark

~ Beautiful Magnolias swaying in a fountain

“Whatever it was I lost, whatever I wept for Was a wild, gentle thing, the small dark eyes Loving me in secret.”

— James Wright, “Milkweed,” from The Branch Will Not Break (Wesleyan University Press, 1972)

food as a metaphor for existence, food as a love language, food as just food (poetry recommendations)

September Tomatoes by Karina Borowicz

Ode to Tomatoes by Pablo Neruda

I Ask My Grandmother If We Can Make Lahmajoun by Gregory Djanikian

Here, There Are Blueberries by Mary Szybist

The Orange by Wendy Cope

Oranges by Gary Soto

From Blossoms by Li-Young Lee

Persimmons by Li-Young Lee

Eating Together by Li-Young Lee

Self-Portrait as So Much Potential by Chen Chen

Chasing Utopia by Nikki Giovanni

In the Kitchen by Chen Jun

Food by Brenda Hillman

Miss you. Would like to grab that chilled tofu we love. by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

I love you. I want us both to eat well by Christopher Citro

Baked Goods by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Bread by W. S. Merwin

buy me a coffee

White Rhododendron

Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face // Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

Anne Sexton, from “Doors, Doors, Doors,” in The Complete Poems [ID in alt text]

can i request one about a lonely childhood?

"I've been craving someones love for as long as I can remember" being a lonely kid, what it makes of you

Anne carson

Fiona apple

olivia laing

X

Kimya Dawson

Anton chekhov

X

Shakespeare

Speedy Ortiz