memories of inexistence

— Erica Jong, from “Bitter Herb”, “Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected”

Ivan Pokidyshev Silence, 2023 Oil on canvas.

Devin Kelly, from “The Monk Who Quit Smoking”

— roach-works

Aja Monet, from "Love Is Older Than 'Israel'," the foreword to Rifqa by Mohammed El-Kurd

— The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje (b. 12 September 1943)

Dorothea Lasky, from "Misunderstood," in Thunderbird

Emily Dickinson

Suzanne Scanlon, from "Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen," published in 2024

A crisp autumn morning in Alaska.

Louise Glück, from "Landscape", Averno

Louise Glück, from ""Averno", Averno

"Awaiting"

Adrienne Rich, from Twenty-One Love Poems (VIII)

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