the art of breathing.

24. a mess. she/her.

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mercy, andrea dworkin

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Sanober Khan, A Thousand Flamingos

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The Kiss of the Siren (detail, 1882) Gustave Wertheimer

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Natalie Díaz, from "From the Desire Field", Postcolonial Love Poem

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Natalie Díaz, from "American Arithmetic", Postcolonial Love Poem

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Edit after Martin Johnson Heade (Cleveland Museum of Art) (Ed. Lic.: CC BY-NC 3.0)

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Doubt, fear, anger, disappointment

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— Ernest Hemingway, from The Complete Works; "The Old Man and the Sea,"

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Warsan Shire, from “Home”, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

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~ Courtney Peppernell

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“I am a child with an old soul. I see magic in everything. But at the same time , everything tires me because I feel everything so very deeply.”

–Juansendizon

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Dulce María Loynaz, tr. by James O’Connor, from Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems

[Text ID: “I am not I. I am barely my own shadow.”]

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1Q84, Haruki Murakami

[text ID:  You lost all interest in this world. You were disappointed and discouraged, and lost interest in everything. So you abandoned your physical body. You went to a world apart and you’re living a different kind of life there. In a world that’s inside you.]

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