Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies

Maggie Nelson, Bluets

jess allen, the passing of time (2023)

“It is on a day like this one, a little later, a little earlier, that you discover, without surprise, that something is wrong, that, without mincing words, you don't know how to live, that you will never know.”

(Perec, A Man Asleep, tr. A. Leak)

Forugh Farrokhzad, tr. by Sholeh Wolpé, from “Reborn”, Sin

Nikki Giovanni, The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998

Art on a prison wall. Manuel de police scientifique. 1911. 

Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

‘On Bad Feelings’ from Moments of Being.

Philip Metres, from "Suburban Return"

Lisel Mueller, “Necessities”

“I am trying to wander more. I am trying to breathe more, to love my lostness,”

— Noor Hindi, from “On Language and Mourning,” The American Poetry Review (vol. 48, no. 4, July/August 2019)

“Oh yes, but lostness is loving someone too, knowing you would take the raft out further if it meant a few more minutes.”

— Jeff Latosik, from “On the General Being of Lostness,” Poetry: New Canadian Poets Issue (December 2017)

Eowyn Ivey, The Snow Child

How to Drown a Boy, J. Bruce Fuller

“you should be at the club” i should be by the sea. i should be in the mountains. i should be awestruck and rendered speechless by the majesty of the natural world. if you even care