mars is stuck in a library right now

they/he/it/she ~ 19 ~ I write because I must

[weltenwellen]

How Can Black People Write About Flowers at a Time Like This Hanif Abdurraqib

[paperplateprose]

not now kitten. daddy's realizing that the scene he invested 1000 words into could be significantly improved but only if he started over from scratch

[literaryvein]

L. V., excerpts from the afterword

[mournfulroses]

Ada Limón, from "Against Breaking: On the Power of Poetry," originally published in April 2026

[inkpressedpetals]

[theoptia]

Jorge Luis Borges, from A Personal Anthology; “A New Refutation of Time”

[mournfulroses]

Sara Torres, from her novel titled "X Is Where I Am," orginally published in March 2026

[mournfulroses]

Fyodor Dostoevsky, from a letter featured in Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoevsky to his Family & Friends

[theoptia]

Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

[mournfulroses]

Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer written in 1913, featured in Letters To Felice

[theoptia]

Jean-Paul Sartre, from The Age of Reason

[mournfulroses]

Makenzie Campbell, from a poem featured in "Room of the Mind: Poems" originally published in 2021

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a notebook entry featured in The Complete Notebooks of Albert Camus

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a notebook entry featured in The Complete Notebooks of Albert Camus

[signedthemoon]

— isa b. a longing for my youth

[poetic-questions]

—Czeslaw Milosz, “Songs of Adrian Zielinski”, from New and Collected Poems

[mournfulroses]

Jane Hirshfield, from a poem titled "The World Loved By Moonight," featured in The Asking: New and Selected Poems