Erika L. Sánchez, from Lessons on Expulsion: Poems; “Amá”
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𝙻𝚘𝚛𝚍 𝙱𝚢𝚛𝚘𝚗,
𝙲𝚑𝚒𝚕𝚍𝚎 𝙷𝚊𝚛𝚘𝚕𝚍'𝚜 𝙿𝚒𝚕𝚐𝚛𝚒𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚎
[𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚙𝚞𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚎𝚍 𝟷𝟾𝟷𝟸]
[ID: There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, END ID]
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Linda Pastan, from The Five Stages of Grief: Poems; "The Mirror"
[Text ID: “Ask nature what love is. / Silence is answer enough.”]
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At evening he loved to walk across the derelict graveyard, or he perused the corpses in a dusky death-chamber, the green spots of decay upon their lovely hands.
Georg Trakl, Poems and Prose: Song of the Recluse; from 'Dream and Derangement', tr. Alexander Stillmark
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Frank O'Hara, from Selected Poems; "Biotherm (for Bill Berkson)"
[Text ID: you were there I was here you were here I was there where are you I miss you]
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Forugh Farrokhzad, Asir (Captive); from ‘Grief’, tr. Sholeh Wolpé
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Anna Akhmatova
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“I am what I asked for”
— Alice Notley, from Mysteries of Small Houses; House of Self.
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16th September (Le seize septembre)
Painting by René Magritte
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Max Ritvo, from Four Reincarnations: Poems; “Living it up”
[Text ID: “I wish you would let me know / how difficult it is to love me. / Then I would know you love me / beneath all that difficulty.”]
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Guillaume Apollinaire, from The Farewell; Alcools: Poems (tr. by Donald Revell), 1913
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‘The Sentence’ by Anna Akhmatova as seen in The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry edited by Ilya Kaminsky & Susan Harris
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Pier Paolo Pasolini
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João Guimarães Rosa, from Grande Sertão: Varedas
Text ID: The human heart—dark, dark.
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Marina Tsvetayeva
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