and in the end.

what’s left if not unspoken words?

[mournfulroses]

Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Nelson Algren, featured in "A Transatlantic Love Affair,

[luminote]

I don't want to be anywhere. I don't want to be anyone's....do you still want me?

[weltenwellen]

I Do Know Some Things Richard Siken

[weltenwellen]

On Seatbelts and Sunsets Hanif Abdurraqib

[feral-ballad]

Elizabeth Metzger, from Lying In: Poems; “Every Child Alone”

[geryone]

Things in Nature Merely Grow, Yiyun Li

[weltenwellen]

Andrea Gibson, The Madness Vase

[beguines]

Patrick Phillips, Elegy for a Broken Machine

[beguines]

Patrick Phillips, from "The Guitar", Elegy for a Broken Machine

[beguines]

Patrick Phillips, Elegy for a Broken Machine

[beguines]

Patrick Phillips, Elegy for a Broken Machine

[beguines]

Patrick Phillips, Elegy for a Broken Machine

[feral-ballad]

Vikram Seth, from Summer Requiem: A Book of Poems; “What’s in it?”

[feral-ballad]

Vikram Seth, from Summer Requiem: A Book of Poems; “Things to Say”

[mournfulroses]

Rainer Maria Rilke, from a poem titled "Alone," featured in The New Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke

[lucidloving]

Richard Siken, "The Worm King's Lullaby" // Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait in Letters // Trista Mateer, "I Still Forget We're Not Even Friends" // Naomi Shihab Nye, "I Still Have Everything You Gave Me" // Ashe Vernon, Wrong Side of a Fistfight // @/hollywarbs on ig // Ryan O'Connell // Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous // June Gehringer, "I get so jealous of euthanized dogs" // Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You

[weltenwellen]

Ocean Vuong, The Weight of Our Living: On Hope, Fire Escapes, and Visible Desperation