Celestial body. Self portrait, 2020

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— Dave Eggers

Sasha Chorny, tr. by Bernard Meares, from “A Drunkard’s Nocturnes,” c. 1910

The Tunnel of Love - Klevan, Ukraine

— Denise Levertov, from The Complete Poems of Denise Levertov; “The Almost-Island,”

Osip Mandelstam, tr. by Bernard Meares, from “The Finder of a Horseshoe,”

— Nikos Kazantzakis, from a letter to Galatea Kazantzaki wr. c. January 1924

— Gertrud Kolmar, from a letter written c. October 1941 featured in “My Gaze Turned Inward,”

Nikita Gill, from “Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths & Monsters,”

Alexander Blok, from “The Stranger,” featured in “A Treasury of Russian Verse,”

C. S. Lewis, from “A Grief Observed,” originally published c. 1961

Jules Laforgue, tr. by William Jay Smith, from “Complaint on Oblivion of the Dead,”

C. S. Lewis, from “A Grief Observed,” originally published c. 1961

Boris Slutsky, tr. by G. S. Smith, from “With that Old Woman I was Cold-Polite,”

Lev Adolfovich Goldberg, tr. by Robert Chandler, from “The World’s Too Big,”

— Colette, tr. by Matthew Ward, from The Collected Stories; “Gitanette,”