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— R. Arnold

Adonis, from "The Wound", Selected Poems

Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke’s Book of Hours

— Noor Hindi, from “On Language and Mourning,” The American Poetry Review (vol. 48, no. 4, July/August 2019)

— — Kayleb Rae Candrilli, from “Transgender heroic: all this ridiculous flesh,” Water I Won’t Touch

 Jean Giono, Ennemonde et autres caractères (via exhaled-spirals)

Waterloo Bridge, Fog, 1903, Claude Monet

Anaïs Nin, from “The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1955–1966”

Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980

Sylvia Plath, from “Three Women.”

— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

Pablo Neruda, tr. by W S. Merwin, from “Tonight I Can Write.”

The Entrance to Giverny under the Snow, 1885, Claude Monet

Mahmoud Darwish, tr. by Fady Joudah, from The Butterfly’s Burden; “Take my horse and slaughter it”

Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke’s Book of Hours

An excerpt from ‘Etcetera,’ by E.E. Cummings