my words to victor frankenstein above the village of chamounix, susan stryker // motion sickness, phoebe bridgers // river ghost, sheryl luna // my house, nikki giovanni // chinese radio station: an ars poetica, nancy huang // we carve a prophecy: the world or the gurl, leia penina wilson

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[Image Description: Six excerpts from various texts. One: "No sound / exists / in this place without language / my rage is a silent raving" by Susan Stryker. Two: "There are no words in the English language / I could scream to drown you out" by Phoebe Bridgers. Three: "There is an old language broken in my throat." by Sheryl Luna. Four: "english isn't a good language / to express emotion through / mostly i imagine because people / try to speak english instead / of trying to speak through it" by Nikki Giovanni. Five: "someone told me / to trim the fat: get rid of adjectives, use solely nouns and verbs, / get at the meat of things. but shanghai is smoking behind me. / how can you describe a thing if you don't have the word / for it?" by Nancy Huang. Six: "i denounce that / i might not have learned my own tongue but / mother / says it's in the blood & i am willing" by Leia Penina Wilson. End ID.]