Have you seen life?

— Juansen Dizon

— Juansen Dizon

illicit affairs and clandestine meetings.

— Pam Leo

— March 13, 1915 / Franz Kafka diaries

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Sandra Cisneros, from "Tea Dance, Provincetown, 1982", Woman Without Shame

— Yasmin Mogahed

— Unknown

It’s a strange feeling to look back at the past sometimes and see how some parts of life have simply dissolved into nothingness. And even though this poem might sound sad, I believe that being mindful of the transience of life actually helps us to feel all the preciousness and beauty of it.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay, from a letter to Arthur Davison Ficke

— Clarice Lispector, from “The Stream of Life.”

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Natalie Díaz, from “American Arithmetic”, Postcolonial Love Poem (2020)

Hari Alluri, from “Ancestral Memory”, After Kwame Dawes 

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