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“Eekholt” by Frank Stöckel 

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art by lukehillestad ( my edits )

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You would not accept commands or mercy from an outstretched hand.

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“I don’t just want to take your breath away. I want to rip it from your mouth and keep it locked away between my teeth. You can only have it back if you kiss me again.”

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Franz Kafka, from a diary entry feature "The Diaries of Franz Kafka: 1910-1923,"

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Hélène Cixous, Love of the Wolf (trans. Keith Cohen) // Nicola Samorì, Saturn’s Fasting //  Måneskin, La Paura del Buio //  Nicola Samorì, Il Pasto // Frank Bidart, Song of the Mortar and Pestle // Nicola Samorì, Il Punto Acerbo // Catherine of Siena, The Prayers of Catherine of Siena (trans. Noffke) //  Nicola Samorì, Maddalena //  Måneskin, La Paura del Buio //  Nicola Samorì, Rapture //  Hadewijch, Poem 16 (trans. unknown)

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Alicia Ostriker, from The Imaginary Lover; “Surviving”

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Alicia Ostriker, from The Imaginary Lover; “In the twenty-fifth year of marriage, it goes on”

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Mary Oliver, “Dogfish.” Dream Work

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Federico Garcia Lorca, Half Moon.

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Ameen Rihani, from Grape Leaves: A Century of Arab-American Poetry; “From: A Chant of Mystics”

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—Emma Johnston

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just some drabbles! i really hope you guys like it :) 

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Midnight, moon, oblivion – the sum of things an emptiness…

Faiz Ahmed Faiz, from ‘Sarud-e-Shabana’ (’Nocturne’). Translated by Victor Kiernan. (via pairedaeza)

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