Category: music

since feeling is first
who pays any attention 
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;

wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world

my blood approves,
and kisses are a better fate 
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don’t cry
—the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids’ flutter which says

we are for each other: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life’s not a paragraph

And death i think is no parenthesis

E. E. Cummings

All For Us (from the HBO Original Series Euphoria), Labrinth · Zendaya

“…the meaning
might incite a stroke – best

press against it, close
the clawhole, stand

in stupor, petrified. The dream
be damned, the deeps defied.

The hand’s to keep
the scream inside.”

Man in the Street, Heather McHugh

The Final Game, Carlos Rafael Rivera, The Queen’s Gambit (Music from the Netflix Limited Series)

Beth’s Story, Carlos Rafael Rivera, The Queen’s Gambit (Music from the Netflix Limited Series)

Playing Townes, Carlos Rafael Rivera

“… let us dream towards

what we want

beyond survival

Amir Rabiyah, Our Dangerous Sweetness

“No handshakes. No goodbyes. But
separated in the crowd, and each with a little wave,”

Lloyd Schwartz, In Flight

“Strange black and princely pirates of the skies,
   Would that your wind-tossed travels I could know!
Would that my soul could see, and, seeing, rise
   To unrestricted life where ebb and flow
   Of Nature’s pulse would constitute a wider life below!

Could I but live just here in Freedom’s arms,
   A kingly life without a sovereign’s care!”

Emily Pauline Johnson, The Flight of the Crows