luthienne:

ALT

Jack Gilbert, from Collected Poems; “Measuring the Tyger”

feral-ballad:

Dulce María Loynaz, tr. by James O’Connor, from Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems

[Text ID: “I will caress the wind and smile at the darkness just in case you’re looking at me in the darkness or kissing me in the wind.”]

luthienne:

George Seferis, from Collected Poems; “Memory I” (tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard)

[Text ID: I whispered: memory hurts wherever you touch it,]