x

Becky

[motherfossil-deactivated2026030]

[remanence-of-love]

[mournfulroses]

Else Fitzgerald, from "Everything Feels Like the End of The World," publ. in 2022

[rozieramati]

[metamorphesque]

"The Brothers Karamazov", Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Constance Garnett)

[mournfulroses]

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

[futuristic-koala]

[poetryforall]

[thepersonalquotes]

[mournfulroses]

Else Fitzgerald, from "Everything Feels Like the End of The World," publ. in 2022

[soracities]

I looked at my mother because I was a version of my mother. I looked away from my mother because I was a version of my mother. I was me, but I was also her—my mother, and I understood this all too well.

— Nora Lange, "Dog Star", pub. The Rupture (#120)

[feral-ballad]

Zehra Naqvi, from The Knot of My Tongue: Poems and Prose; “Dear Baba”

[remanence-of-love]

[remanence-of-love]

[mournfulroses]

Gregory Orr, from Orpheus & Eurydice: A Lyric Sequence, originally published in 2001

[oldwinesoul]

[mournfulroses]

Jeanette Winterson, from "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal," publ. in 2011