Because I am made of flesh, blood, and words.

— Belovéd, Yves Olade (What Are Birds? Transpoetics Prize)

Hanif Abdurraqib, from A Fortune for Your Disaster: Poems; “Lights out tonight, trouble in the heartland”

Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

Didi Jackson, from "Poem With the Last Line as the First"

Erou, Maya Phillips

this one btw

Tired, Langston Hughes

Mary Oliver, "Flare." Devotions

—C. S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies

Anne de Marcken, from It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over [ID'd]

― Stevie Smith, Richard Siken, Ana Lucía Ceballos Cáceres, Emily Palermo, Katrien de Blauwer, Natalie Diaz, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Natalie Wee, Jenny Slate

Sara Teasdale, from The Collected Poems of Sara Teasdale; "Song,"

Ocean Vuong, from “Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong”, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

Ossuaries, Dionne Brand

— Friedrich Nietzsche, from “Writings from the Late Notebooks.”