nobody does chapter titles like charles dickens
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Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies
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“in a world full of temporary things, you are a perpetual feeling.”
― Sanober Khan
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Rafael Alberti, tr. by Ben Belitt, from An Anthology of Spanish Poetry: From the Beginnings to the Present Day, Including Both Spain and Spanish America; "Paradise Lost"
[Text ID: “Across centuries / and the void of a world, / sleepless, I seek you.”]
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Fydoror Dostoevsky // Clarice Lispector
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Margaret Atwood, from True Stories: Poems; "Postcard," originally published in 1981
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Ada Limón, from "Crush", Sharks in the Rivers
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Mary Szybist, Incarnadine
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Mary Szybist, Incarnadine
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Margaret Atwood, from The Door: Poems; “Europe on 5$ a day”
[Text ID: “I’ve cut myself off. / I can feel the place / where I used to be attached. / It’s raw, as when you grate / your finger. It’s a shredded mess / of images. It hurts.”]
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the year was Two Thousand and twenty-four. I took a puff of my Electronic-Cigarette, inhaling the vapours. my mobile terminal buzzed in my pocket, a flat slab of microchips and glossy touchscreen. I ignored it....... probably another Electronic-Mail
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The Orange and Other Poems, Wendy Cope
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how it feels to ignore text messages and phone calls
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