typodescript:

weltenwellen:

Erika L. Sánchez, from “La Cueva”, Lessons on Expulsion

[text: Who is this
in the mirror? Why won’t you love me?
Why won’t you let me be?]

beguines:

Amy Hempel, “Cloudland”, Sing to It

feral-ballad:

Blythe Baird, from If My Body Could Speak; “Concerns from a hot-boxed jeep”

[Text ID: “How do I stop / carrying everything / that had ever / happened to me?”]

typewriter-worries:

ALT

Promises of Gold, José Olivarez

weltenwellen:

Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

weltenwellen:

Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

weltenwellen:

Franny Choi, from “Catastrophe is Next to Godliness”

spectrologie-deactivated2023041:

Lawrence Hardy

aaresx:

Albert Camus, The Fall

weltenwellen:

when Sharon Olds said “If I pass a mirror, I turn away, I do not want to look at her, and she does not want to be seen.”

serratedpens:

“Or was my rage my mother’s? Or her mother’s? Or hers? An inherited creature?”

— Letter to My Rage: An Evolution, by Lidia Yuknavitch  (via 89words)

heavensghost:

from one of my unfinished poems