[facinaoris]

The Burning Ones, Salma Deera

[petaltexturedskies]

Ingeborg Bachmann, from "Eyes to Wonder" in Three Paths to the Lake

[female2004]

[mournfulroses]

Margaret Atwood, from Paper Boat: Selected Poems; "He Shifts from East to West,"

[knittedwithhope]

unresolved grief

[hearts-rot]

the floor seemed wonderfully solid - it was comforting to know that I had fallen and could fall no further

[feral-ballad]

Joy Sullivan, from Instructions for Traveling West: Poems; “Instructions for Traveling West”

[weltenwellen]

Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

[apoemaday]

Love After Love

by Derek Walcott

The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other’s welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— David Foster Wallace

[hearts-rot]

please let me keep this memory

just this one

[kosmogrl]

[kosmogrl]

[hearts-rot]

please let me keep this memory

just this one

[zombiegirlfriend2007]

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— Charlotte Eriksson, from “You're Doing Just Fine.”

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— Tina Chang, from “Color.”

[r-siken-deactivated20210531]

a primer for the small weird loves, richard siken