not available

—

Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs, tr. by Sam Bett and David Boyd // Louise Glück, Adult Grief // Horace Vernet, The Maiden’s Lament (oil on canvas) // Mona Sa’udi, “When the loneliness of the tomb,” from Women of the Fertile Crescent: An Anthology of Modern Poetry by Arab Women, tr. by Kamal Boullata // Photography by 西游朽 (xiuxiukong) // Mark Strand, "Keeping Things Whole" from Selected Poems by Mark Strand, 1979 // Clarice Lispector, A Breath of Life, 1978 (paraphrased) // Graveyard statue in Coburg, Germany // Anaïs Nin, Fire: From “A Journal of Love”: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin (paraphrased) // Bust of Alexander the Great, found in Palazzo Massimo courtyard, Lancellotti, Rome

I'm too scared to move. I'm too scared to try anything.

I don’t know what I’m doing either.

- Embeccy

— Maya Angelou

— Unknown