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Bilal Al-Shams, Sacrifice

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Ada Limón, from "Territory", Sharks in the Rivers

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#web weaving

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Ada Limón, from "To the Busted Among Us", Sharks in the Rivers

#ada limón #poetry #text

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Mary Szybist, Incarnadine

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from Autopsy by Donte Collins

#text

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Julia de Burgos, tr. by Jack Agüeros, from Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos; "Moments"

[Text ID: “Me, inside myself, / always waiting for something / that my mind can’t define.”]

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Mary Oliver, from “the fourth sign of the zodiac” published in Blue Horses

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the contents page of Pictures & Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings by James Elkins

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the teapot by Robert Bly

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Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

#text #quotes #hanif abdurraqib

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may by Tom Disch

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Alejandro Zambra, Ways of Going Home (translated by Megan McDowell)

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Mary Szybist, Incarnadine

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“I prayed and fasted. I read the mystics. I studied the martyrs. I began to think I was someone thirsting for God.”

— Anne Carson, The Anthropology of Water

#anne carson #text

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Rainer Maria Rilke in his letter to Franz Kappus, 16 July 1903, featured in Letters to a Young Poet (translated by Charlie Louth)

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#text #quote #rainer maria rilke

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[may] by Linda Pastan

#poetry #may