咲夜 | yvria sinclair

love elizabeth s.

Ōtomo no Yakamochi, from a poem featured in From the country of Eight Islands; an anthology of Japanese Poetry

Virginia Woolf, The Selected Diaries

Albert Camus, from Notebooks 1951-1959; May 13th, 1959

Maggie Smith, from a poem titled "Now They’re Saying Isolation Atrophies the Brain," featured in A Suit or a Suitcase: Poems

C.G. Jung, from The Red Book: Liber Novus

Sara Teasdale, from "The Crystal Gazer" in Dark of the Moon

from Franz Kafka's "Letters to Felice"

Ocean Vuong, The Emperor of Gladness

L. V., excerpts from the epilogue

I Do Know Some Things Richard Siken

Cecilia Woloch, from Carpathia; “Postcard to Ilya Kaminsky from a Dream at the Edge of the Sea”

Juansen Dizon, i am the architect of my own destruction

Brianna Wiest, from her book titled "The Pivot Year," originally published in January 2026

and I pray, and I hope.

L. V., excerpts from the afterword