she loved the stars so much that she became one

-a book that’ll be too hard to write

ink and watercolor, 4x4 inches 2025

Federico García Lorca, tr. by Sarah Arvio, from Selections; “Autumn Song,”

The Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1914-1923

Audre Lorde, from The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde; “A Family Resemblance,”

Samuel Beckett, from "Waiting for Godot," originally published in January 1953

Junot Díaz, from Drown, 1995

Tony Hoagland, from “Peaceful Transition”, What Narcissism Means to Me

"To forget, to forget ...", Vahan Teryan (translated by Tathev Simonyan)

Patricia Smith, from Teahouse of the Almighty; “Building Nicole’s Mama”

Sappho, If Not Winter: Fragments of Sappho (tr. by Anne Carson)

- 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚣𝚊𝚋𝚎𝚝𝚑 𝚜.

Kate Chopin, from The Awakening

Stephen Mitchell, Gilgamesh

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

Sylvia Plath, "Love Letter"