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photo by yearling_

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June Jordan, "Resolution #1,003." Haruko/Love Poems

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Judy Kinuthia at Elie Saab SS 20

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“You have to follow where your blood takes you.”

— Federico García Lorca (tr. John Edmunds), Blood Wedding

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Red gowns by Teuta Matoshi

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“You are your own beginning. Every day, every hour, every minute, you start again. There is no point wishing you were someone else, you are who you are—start there.”

— A. M. Homes, Music for Torching

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“I look for you everywhere; small gestures made by all kinds of people in the street remind me of you, by their similarity as much as by their differences, but I cannot say what is obsessing me; it obsesses me utterly and leaves no strength to express it.”

— Franz Kafka, from Letters To Felice (via violentwavesofemotion)

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Mary Oliver, "Love Sorrow." Red Bird

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beaded by Anna Braginskaya

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Simone Weil, “Void and Compensation” (trans. Emma Craufurd), Simone Weil: An Anthology

[Text ID: “I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.”]

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“You are your own beginning. Every day, every hour, every minute, you start again. There is no point wishing you were someone else, you are who you are—start there.”

— A. M. Homes, Music for Torching

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Blumarine FW08

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fr. “Selected Poems” by Carol Ann Duffy

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Obsidian knife, Mesoamerica, circa 1200 - 1500.

from the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco