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

[flowerytale]

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

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Travel and tell no one. Live a true love story and tell no one. Live happily and tell no one. People ruin beautiful things.

Khalil Gibran

[feral-ballad]

Erika L. Sánchez, from Lessons on Expulsion: Poems; “Amá”

[feral-ballad]

Linda Pastan, from The Five Stages of Grief: Poems; "The Mirror"

[Text ID: “Ask nature what love is. / Silence is answer enough.”]

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— Clarice Lispector, from “The Hour of the Star.”

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— Nelly Sachs, from “The Seeker.”

[shisasan]

December 1, 1928 The early diary of Anaïs Nin, 1903-1977

[andrumedus]

‘Gbenga Adeoba, Exodus; “A Short Essay on Drowning”

[Text ID: into that November dark.]

[stlowens]

Mary Oliver, from “Marengo.” [ID in alt text]

[dark-romantics]

~ Courtney Peppernell

[soracities]

e.e. cummings, from ‘to stand(alone) in some’ (in 95 Poems), Complete Poems: 1904-1962

[Text ID: “ to stand(alone)in some autumnal afternoon: breathing a fatal stillness;”]

[soracities]

Angela Carter, The Magic Toyshop

[Text ID: “October, crisp, misty, golden October, when the light is sweet and heavy.”]

[flowerytale]

Franz Kafka, from “Diaries, 1910-1923”

[feral-ballad]

Blythe Baird, from If My Body Could Speak; “Concerns from a hot-boxed jeep”

[Text ID: “How do I stop / carrying everything / that had ever / happened to me?”]

[lone-nyctophile]

- Beau Taplin

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— Rainer Maria Rilke, transl. by J.B Leishman, from Poems 1906 to 1926 (New Directions Books, 1957)