[metamorphesque]

Missed Time, Ha Jin

[bitesizedpoetry]

Sylvia Plath, aged 25, from "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath" (dated June 20, 1958)

[weltenwellen]

Joy Sullivan, from "Late Bloomer", Instructions for Traveling West

[lena-oleanderson]

also a poem from the new, unreleased collection. very possibly my own all-time favourite.

[morallyambiguous]

upstream, mary oliver; gravity and grace, simone weil; journal of a solitude, may sarton

[litarchives]

- Franz Wright

[funeral]

Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

[anthonyopal]

“I feel loved when a person offers no suggestions / They look down and away, take a breath, / Look back”

Title: THE PRESENT

Author: Emily Kendal Frey

Booklet, 42 pp, 7 x 5.25 in

Language: English

ISBN: 979-8-218-61923-7

Published: March 13, 2025

[litarchives]

You’re allowed to be sad. Grown-ups are supposed to be strong, and only toddlers fling themselves in temper tantrums when they don’t get what they want. The heaviness that permeates your life is all the little sadnesses unmourned. All the dead planets, all the silent moons—our radio signals singing into the void.

Maybe there’s nothing after this life. Maybe you’re surrounded by angels. Maybe we simply come back until we learn enough. Our universe is so wide and wild; it’s hard not to feel insubstantial, forgettable, alone.

You can put your strength down. I’m sitting here with you at your kitchen table. You don’t need to say anything.

- Eden Robinson, Writing Prompts for the Broken-hearted

[lttledog]

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn.

[remanence-of-love]

[quotespile]

“I was just trying to pass the time. I thought if I did normal things — held down a job, for example — I could starve off the part of me that hated everything.”

— Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

[bakwaaas]

[strokeofserenity]

M.L.Rio, “If We Were Villains.”

[metamorphesque]

— call me by your name (andré aciman) / franz kafka

[thoughtkick]

“Some people aren’t loyal to you, they are loyal to their need of you. Once their needs change, so does their loyalty.”

— Unknown

[luthienne]

from "11 POEMS—TITLES BY AZIZ SHIHAB—FROM HIS NOTEBOOKS" as featured in Naomi Shihab Nye's Transfer: Poems