The shadows of Palestinians are seen on a piece of gauze as they cool down at a pool in Gaza City on August 2, 2016. (Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images)

Gertrude Abercrombie (American, 1908-1977), Lonely House, 1938. Oil on canvas, 36 x 30 in.

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{Aracelis Girmay, from "This Morning the Small Bird Brought a Message from the Other Side," Kingdom Animalia (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2011) / Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Ruth Tiffanny Beuscher written c. July 1962}

Anaïs Nin, from ‘A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller 1932-1953’

Søren Kierkegaard, Diaries 1813-1855

— Paul Éluard, from epigraph to Hush by David St. John (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985); original source not noted

"Back-to-land" - Wheeler Ranch community - 1969. Photo : Bob Fitch

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

my favorite block on the aids quilt

— Julian Barnes, from Levels of Life (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013)

— Charles Wright, from “ XXVII. One Needs No Paradise When the Rain Falls”, two poems from Littlefoot excerpted in Poetry Northwest

Text ID: MEGARA: You love the light so much? / AMPHIYRYON: I do, I love its hopes.

Carl Phillips, from Reconnaissance; “Steeple”

DADA “Light My Fingers” candle by Claire Olshan

Euripides, tr. by Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides