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Nina Simone at a press reception for Philips Records at Stanhope Place in London on July 14, 1966.

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ayshea by hary

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Concerning the Book That Is the Body of the Beloved

Gregory Orr

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Bruno Barbey. Thailand. Bangkok. Marketing along Sukhumvit Road, selling orchids. 1994.

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In the Mood for Love (2000) directed by: Wong Kar-wai

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she asked me if i believed in god and i told her that when i was four i almost drowned in a public pool and in my panic mistook a stranger for my father. i clawed my way up his leg. four years later he’d send my parents a picture of the scars alongside a tin of cookies. he said, “i hope she’s still okay. i carry her with me. it isn’t every day you save a life. it isn’t every day you feel like you were here for a reason. when it does happen, you have to cherish that memory. for once, i had a purpose. just being there was enough. she tore me open but she taught me a lot about love.”

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embarrassment has good bones

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Joy Sullivan, from Instructions for Traveling West: Poems; “These Days People Are Really Selling Me on California”

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I am good. I am loved.

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Louise Glück, from “Quince Tree”, The Seven Ages

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大覚寺

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Fatou Jobe photographed by Jeiroh 

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“Oh Palestine, if your love was a crime then let history testify that I am a criminal for loving you.”