The Whole World Around Me Expanding And Contracting, Visually And Viscerally Heaving.

If I had a prayer, it would say, Let this not be a mirror to the past, nor a window to the future. Let each night be only itself.

- Heather Christle, The Crying Book

Look how much sadness you can make from showing sadness restrained.

- Heather Christle, The Crying Book

to want and to wonder are parallel actions

- Jessica Fisher, Anne Carson’s Stereoscopic Poetics

and how it's hard not to always want something else, not just to let the savage grass grow.

Ada Limón, Mowing

he does not understand the reason for the moon

Garous Abdolmalekian, Long Poem of Loneliness tr. Ahmed Nadalizadeh and Idra Novey

'Come close to me, come closer. I promise it will be beautiful.'

Anaïs Nin, Henry and June

burn like a meteor and leave no dust.

- Virginia Woolf, Orlando

I am a song about the great pain of joy.

Dagna Ślepowrońska, tr. Regina Grol

if the grief is unbearable is there another way to live with it that is not the same as bearing it?

- Judith Butler

I take the soil in

my clean fingers and to say

I weep is untrue, weep is too

musical a word. I heave

into the soil. You cannot die.

I just came to this life

again, alive in my silent way.

- Ada Limón, Invasive