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You only find nowhere on the way to somewhere, Devin Lunsford

Text ID: I’ve never seen you without wanting to pray to you. I’ve never heard you without wanting to place my faith in you. I’ve never longed for you without wanting to suffer for your sake. I’ve never desired you without wanting to be able to kneel before you.

Ellen Bass, “The Thing Is”, Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems

Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies

Natalie Díaz, from "American Arithmetic", Postcolonial Love Poem

Rika

Rachel Gillig, The Knight and the Moth

Joe Hall

Devin Kelly, from "How to Drown"

I Do Know Some Things Richard Siken

Simone de Beauvoir, Diary of a Philosophy Student

Sick, Chelsea Wolfe

Ingeborg Bachmann, from "Eyes to Wonder" in Three Paths to the Lake