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It rained all night and I miss my childhood. It's a short poem, I've had a long long night and a short life. I've been trying to remember my grandpa's smile but memory is a treacherous thing. It rained all night and I miss everything I've forgotten.

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The Flesh I Burned

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Megan Fernandes, from “Fabric in Tribeca,” in Good Boys

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Anne Carson // Jonathan Safran Foer

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Holy Wild, Gwen Benaway

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Arctic Monkeys // Sylvia Plath

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“𝐼 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑜𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑠𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑚𝑒.”

—Clifton Gachagua

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Warsan Shire, from “Backwards”, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

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— Virginia Woolf, from “Carlyle’s House and Other Sketches.”

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“you’re so polite with your sadness. you don’t want to ruin this for anyone.”

— — Silas Melvin, from “Twenty,” Grit

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— Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934.

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i am too in love with life, i don't want to die (i cannot fathom the absence of living)

arthoesunshine | sunlightafterdark | joseph cambell | mary oliver | amy krouse rosenthal | joseph brodsky | unknown | gregory orr | colette, tr by matthew ward | anaïs nin

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Ada Limón, from “The Widening Road”, Sharks in the Rivers

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"Write to me, always

Even if it is little

Just don't stop"

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1. A Primer for the Small Weird Loves - Richard Siken / 2. The Crane Wife - CJ Hauser / 3. Automat - Edward Hopper / 4. Red Doc> - Anne Carson / 5. Melancholy - Edvard Munch / 6. The Village (2004) / 7. So We Must Meet Apart - Gabrielle Bates and Jennifer S. Cheng

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— Clarice Lispector, from “Report on the Thing.”

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— Clarice Lispector, from Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector

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“The other day, lying in bed, I felt my heart beating for the first time in a long while. I realized how little I live in my body, how much in my mind”

-Rodger kamenetz, from Terra infirma