#theme love

—Salvador Plascencia, from The People Of Paper

—Jack Gilbert, from The Great Fires

I dress your name as if a wound, with the delicacy of someone who knows how much it can hurt to move. I whisper it with caution, as if there is no more room in my throat except for that of air. Ocean Vuong said freedom is nothing but the distance between a hunter and its prey, and with each broken step I’m learning that love does nothing but eat, and tear at these threads

—Li-Young Lee, from This Room and Everything In It