(excerpted from Leila Chatti's poem: "Tea", published in Missouri Review)

— Kyra Wilder, from Gloss

"The Brothers Karamazov", Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Constance Garnett)

Jane Hirshfield, from a poem titled "Today, When I Could Do Nothing," featured in The Asking: New and Selected Poems

Marisa Walz, from her book titled "Good Intentions," originally published in February 2026

Juansen Dizon, i am the architect of my own destruction

Franz Kafka, 1912

— Sylvia Plath, Three Women 

-Albert Camus, “The Misunderstanding.”

— Melissa Cox

- Anonymous

(excerpted from Leila Chatti's poem: "Tea", published in Missouri Review)

Federico García Lorca, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Federico García Lorca

November 17, 1912 Letters to Felice by Franz Kafka First published : 1973

less of a poem, more of a reminder. ( ꨄ )

Anne Boyer