[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

[shisasan]

November 17, 1912 Letters to Felice by Franz Kafka First published : 1973

[nixscriptum]

less of a poem, more of a reminder. ( ꨄ )

[5555ilenthill]

[brandneweyescd]

they were right btw. you have to dig yourself out of your grave over and over again

[choysum]

Anne Boyer