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— Émile Verhaeren, from The Evenings: Poems; “Fatal Flower,” c. 1887 

to love someone is firstly to confess: i'm prepared to be devastated by you. by A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Mary Oliver, from a poem titled "West Wind," featured in Devotions: Selected Poems

little bit from a longer piece of mine ࿔‧ ֶָ֢˚˖𐦍˖˚ֶָ֢ ‧࿔

Margaret Atwood, from The Blind Assassin  

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The Flesh I Burned

Richard Siken, Crush/Lora Mathis, If There's A Way Out I'll Take It

Naomi Shihab Nye, “Sometimes I Pretend.” A Maze Me: Poems for Girls

— Anne Sexton, from “A Self-Portrait In Letters.”

— Marina Tsvetaeva, from Yesterday He Still Looked In My Eyes in “Bride Of Ice: New Selected Poems.”

louise glück!!!!

Mahmoud Darwish

[Text ID: “In time of daffodils(who know the goal of living is to grow)”]

Erika L. Sánchez, from “La Cueva”, Lessons on Expulsion

[Text ID: I know I’ll always think of you with something like hurt and nostalgia―and a great deal of love.]

Audre Lorde, “From the House of Yemanjá”, The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde