“I am both worse and better than you thought.”— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
βvivisection (youβre going to break my heart)β by Marty McConnell from The Best American Poetry 2014, edited by Terrance Hayes and David Lehman.
The Jacaranda Years by Yiwei Chai
“Tears fell like kisses.”— Vicente Aleixandre, from A Longing for the Light; ‘At the Bottom of a Well’
Paris bookstore 1904 by Tavik Frantisek Simon.
And be no more the warder of my heart,
Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems; from ‘When you, that at this moment are to me’