[weltenwellen]

Mary Oliver, from “Green, Green is My Sister's House”, A Thousand Mornings

[shisasan]

Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924)

[kosmogrl]

[paper-wounds]

[madgirlscosm-deactivated2025051]

(excerpted from Leila Chatti's poem: "Tea", published in Missouri Review)

[lifeinpoetry]

Living, finally, instead of always only trying to be cured or get well.

— Kyra Wilder, from Gloss

[metamorphesque]

"The Brothers Karamazov", Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Constance Garnett)

[mournfulroses]

Jane Hirshfield, from a poem titled "Today, When I Could Do Nothing," featured in The Asking: New and Selected Poems

[mournfulroses]

Marisa Walz, from her book titled "Good Intentions," originally published in February 2026

[terrorignitis]

Juansen Dizon, i am the architect of my own destruction

[velartis]

Franz Kafka, 1912

[89words]

“I wait and ache. I think I am healing.”

— Sylvia Plath, Three Women 

[academic-vampire]

“I was looked at, but I wasn’t seen.”

-Albert Camus, “The Misunderstanding.”

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Melissa Cox

[lux-noxaurea11]

- Anonymous

[madgirlscosm-deactivated2025051]

(excerpted from Leila Chatti's poem: "Tea", published in Missouri Review)

[mournfulroses]

Federico García Lorca, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Federico García Lorca