Giraffe Manor Nairobi, Kenya
“Learn to write by doing it. Read widely and wisely. Increase your word power. Find your own individual voice through practicing constantly. Go through the world with your eyes and ears open and learn to express that experience in words.”
― P.D. James
— Louise Glück, from “Timor Mortis.”
adonis, tr. by khaled mattawa
If there were flowers
In my tangled hair could I
Become beautiful?
lucille clifton
— Carol Rifka Brunt in Tell The Wolves I’m Home
— Paul Guest, from “1987.”








