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[requiem-on-water]

Niklas Jeromin

[demon-keeping]

[petaltexturedskies]

Amy Lowell, from Sword Blades and Poppy Seed

[mournfulroses]

Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry featured in “The Selected Diaries of Virginia Woolf,”

[feral-ballad]

Maya C. Popa, from Wound is the Origin of Wonder: Poems: “All inner life runs at some delay”

[ak-nm]

[requiem-on-water]

Helen Mur

[weltenwellen]

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

[metamorphesque]

"Beautiful Losers", Leonard Cohen

[vedalardan-deactivated20250106]

[petaltexturedskies]

Anaïs Nin, Nearer the Moon: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1937-1939

[kitty]

[mournfulroses]

Anne Michaels, from "Infinite Gradation," originally published in October 2017

[fatefuly]

[helloeverything123]

[remanence-of-love]

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Guillaume Apollinaire, tr. by Anne Hyde Greet, from Calligrams; “Snapshot,”