A Love Letter To Myself

isn't it beautiful that in Islam the focus is on the intentions because when your actions get misunderstood by people Allah will reward you for your intentions.

Mary Oliver, from "Peonies"

H A P P Y T R I G G E R, Milk and Filth, Carmen Giménez

Kaveh Akbar, from "Wild Pear Tree"

― Hiromi Kawakami, The Briefcase

you have to let yourself be a weird woman or you will not survive

Joy Sullivan, from "Long Division", Instructions for Traveling West

Instructions for the Lovers, Dawn Lundy Martin

might as well

Richard Siken