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Inside Our Love, Leonard Cohen

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Find Me as the Creature I Am, Emily Jungmin Yoon

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“The good girl is always a ghost, / the body is always a wound.”

— Anne Champion, from “Bettie Page and the Wisdom of Old Age,” published in Muzzle (via mirayama)

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Delmira Agustini, from The Selected Poems of Delmira Agustini; "The Flood,"

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Sylvia Plath, from a letter featured in The Letters of Sylvia Plath Vol. 1: 1940-1956

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Forugh Farrokhzad, from Let Us Believe In the Beginning of the Cold Season; "Windows,"

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— Fyodor Dostoevsky; Letter to his brother 9th August 1838

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Anaïs Nin, from The Voice

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day 9 / 30

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Savannah Brown, from Closer Baby Closer; “Retroactive jealousy”

[Text ID: “Someday I’ll care for something / without wanting to close a door behind it.”]

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Gavin Yuan Gao, from "Lullaby"

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Kate Baer, from What Kind of Woman: Poems; “To take back a life”

[Text ID: “the hunger to be held, to be wanted, to / be called from the streets like the family / dog. You are not a good girl. You are not / somebody’s otherness.”]

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Kate Baer, from And Yet: Poems; “Idea”

[Text ID: “I will enjoy this life. I will open it like a peach in season, suck the juice from every finger, run my tongue over my chin. I will not worry about clichés or uninvited guests peering in my windows. I will love and be loved. Save and be saved a thousand times. I will let the want into my body, bless the heat under my skin. My life, I will not waste it. I will enjoy this life.”]

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Marina Tsvetaeva, from "Bus", Selected Poems (trans. Elaine Feinstein, with Simon Franklin) [ID'd]

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Joan Didion, from Blue Nights

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Bianca Stone, from What Is Otherwise Infinite: Poems; “Cutting Odette’s Fingernails”