emotional warfare

C.G. Jung, from The Red Book: Liber Novus

Text ID: I exist, I am, don't come near, I have teeth, I have claws.

Untitled by Joy Harjo

— To the Desert, Benjamin Alire Sáenz 

Joy Sullivan, from “Soup”, Instructions for Traveling West

Turning by Victoria Chang

Yi Lei, tr. by Tracy K. Smith, from My Name Will Grow Wild Like a Tree: Selected Poems; “I don’t want to be restored to reason”

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"Eurydice's Lament" by Sean Glatch, published in Passionfruit Review

James Baldwin.

i love you, it looks like rain, June Gehringer

Sharon Olds, “Late Poem to My Father”

[text id: my fist has always been clenched around the handle of an invisible suitcase. / i am always ready to leave. / there is not a single room in this world where i belong.]

i like your name, tathev simonyan

Letters to Felice, Franz Kafka (translated by James Stern and Elisabeth Duckworth)

I picture it soft and I ache!