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Grigor Narekatsi, from Anthology of Armenian Poetry, ed. & tr. by Diana Der Hovanessian and Marzbed Margossian; "Book of Lamentations: Conversations with God, from the depth of my heart"

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from Anthology of Armenian Poetry, ed. & tr. by Diana Der Hovanessian and Marzbed Margossian; "Your bosom"

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Paruyr Sevak, from Anthology of Armenian Poetry, ed. & tr. by Diana Der Hovanessian and Marzbed Margossian; "Your unripe love"

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Leonard Cohen, from The Book of Mercy (1984)

#free palestine #fuck israel #leonard cohen #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #🇵🇸

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#sacred heart #art

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Florence Welch, 2023 🧜🏻‍♀️

#my heart🫀 #florence and the machine #florence welch

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Caitlin Bailey, from Solve for Desire: Poems; “Poppies”

[Text ID: “My body is a bruise, purpled with loss. / I am tired of swallowing your name, / finding ink on each of your shirts, / red petals in the pages of books.”]

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Caitlin Bailey, from Solve for Desire: Poems; “Definition Of”

[Text ID: “To come to you willingly— / even now I ask foe this ache.”]

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Caitlin Bailey, from Solve for Desire: Poems; “The Pond”

[Text ID: “Who was I to prevent / your sinking, to call out, when / nothing in this world deserved / you?”]

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Caitlin Bailey, from Solve for Desire: Poems; “The field that resists naming”

[Text ID: “You are taking a class in / indifference. / You want to be able to ignore / his hands”]

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Caitlin Bailey, from Solve for Desire: Poems; “Incantare”

[Text ID: “Someone has replaced your heart / with raw meat. / That delicacy. I’m working on a trick / where I come across sated. / Where I don’t remember how to be ravenous.”]

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Caitlin Bailey, from Solve for Desire: Poems; “Pigeons”

[Text ID: “Sometimes I can’t believe my heart, / how it continues. / how it isn’t black and withered, / how the chambers remain clear / the beat plain and perfect.”]

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Caitlin Bailey, from Solve for Desire: Poems; “Pigeons”

[Text ID: “The most brilliant part of / you exists to haunt me:”]

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Here is the knife that kills me in your hand. To prove it I let the blood myself.

Jeanette Winterson, from Gut Symmetries

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Jeanette Winterson, from Gut Symmetries

[Text ID: “What kills live? Only this: neglect. I knew I was neglecting myself.”]

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Unfortunately I threw my heart to the dogs. Never mind. No one will notice how much is missing from the inside, will they?

Jeanette Winterson, from Gut Symmetries

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I cannot assume you will understand me. It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear. Some story we must have. Stray words on crumpled paper. A weak signal into the outer space of each other.

Jeanette Winterson, from Gut Symmetries

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