{breathing easy}

— Simone de Beauvoir, tr. by Justin O’Brien, from “The Woman Destroyed,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

— Margaret Atwood, from “The Testaments,” released c. September 2019

— Jody Chan, from “Elegy for the Pre-Packaged Pie I Ate on March 14, 2018,” published in Hot Metal Bridge

— Laura Villareal, from “Boiling Puffins,” published in Waxwing (via lifeinpoetry)

Lucille Clifton, from The Collected Poems of L. C.; “Leukemia As White Rabbit,”

— Kayleb Rae Candrilli, from “Transgender Heroic: All This Ridiculous Flesh,” published in The Normal School

— Katherine Mansfield, from a diary entry featured in “Journals,” c. June 1915

— Alejandra Pizarnik, from ‘[…] Of the Silence’, Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962-1972 (trans. Yvette Siegert)

— Desireé Dallagiacomo, from Sink (via aangs)

— Virginia Woolf, from The Complete Works; “Jacob’s Room,” wr. c. 1922

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— Lidia Yuknavitch, from “The Chronology of Water: A Memoir,” wr. c. 2011

— Rest Achilles, the world will wait | p.d (via p.d vulpe)

— Dacia Maraini, tr. by Tim Vode, from “Dreams of Clytemnestra,” wr. c. 1994