words from elsewhere

tell me to come back

From Something I Abandoned a Long Time Ago

I learn everything the hard way

Franz Wright, from Walking to Martha's Vineyard; “Flight”

Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments

Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

— Haruki Murakami, After Dark

You think you get it but you have no fucking idea

Lake Mungo (Joel Anderson, 2008)

Silver leaf, colored metal leaf and stone powder on Korean paper, 80 × 80 cm

tell me to come back

the memory hurts but does me no harm

Patricia A. McKillip, from her book titled "The Book of Atrix Wolfe," originally published in 1995

— Rosie Stockton, from "PUMPJACK," Fuel

Kayleb Rae Candrilli, from Water I Won’t Touch; “Valentine, Nebraska: Cherry County”

Kayleb Rae Candrilli, from Water I Won’t Touch; “On having forgotten to recycle”

Fyodor Dostoevsky, from a letter featured in Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoevsky to his Family & Friends