“Speak earth and bless me with what is richest” Audre Lorde “I am earthbound in my admiration for you” Sandra Cisneros Photos from a weekend away and poems that I put in my first love letter to marian. ID 1, 3 & 5: A black and white photo of Ashley and Marian in the middle of ocean water, holding one another. ID 2: A screenshot of “BRIDGE THROUGH MY WINDOW” by Audre Lorde that reads “ Love, we are both shorelines a left country where time suffices and the right land where pearls roll into earth and spring up day. Joined our bodies make a passage without merging as this slim necklace is anchored into night. And while the we conspires to make secret its two eyes we search the other shore for some crossing home.” ID 4: A screenshot of "À la recherche d’ Gertrude Stein" by Frank O'Hara that reads “ when I am in your presence I feel life is strong and will defeat all its enemies and all of mine and all of yours and yours in you and mine in me” ID 6: A screenshot of “Poem for My Love” by June Jordan that reads “How do we come to be here next to each other in the night Where are the stars that show us to our love inevitable Outside the leaves flame usual in darkness and the rain falls cool and blessed on the holy flesh the black men waiting on the corner for a womanly mirage I am amazed by peace It is this possibility of you asleep and breathing in the quiet air” 📸: @theglumplum