from “Flare” by Mary Oliver
Forgotten by the world, but not by nature.
- November 10, 1917
- The diaries of Franz Kafka, 1914-1923
[ID: November 10. I haven’t yet written down the decisive thing, I am still going in two directions. The work awaiting me is enormous. End ID]
mary oliver, upstream
— Ocean Vuong, Reasons for Staying
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights[text ID: “You said I killed you - haunt me, then! Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!”
— Ocean Vuong, The Punctum
The Forest Clearing, 1896
Ivan Shishkin
Stephen Spender, from Selected Poems & Journals (1939-1995); “Emptiness,” (x)
