savior / damnator

Billy-Ray Belcourt, from This Wound Is a World; “The Oxford Journal”

Han Kang, Human Acts (translated by Deborah Smith)

Ocean Vuong, from "To My Father / To My Future Son", Night Sky with Exit Wounds

Meditation On The Threshold: A Bilingual Anthology Of Poetry, ‘Memory of Tlatelolco’ by Rosario Castellanos

- Eduardo C. Corral

‘I took my grief down to the river to drown it there but it was the grief that carried me and it won’t be bringing me home.’ - Katie Maria

More Trees from Cape Perpetua

— Andrea Gibson, from 1988

—Michael Dickman, “Killing Flies”

— Assia Wevill referring to Ted Hughes, from ‘A Lover of Unreason: The Life and Tragic Death of Assia Wevill’ by Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev (via derangedrhythms)

— dedication, ‘The Austere Academy’, A Series of Unforunate Events, Lemony Snicket

Lila Lake, September 2022