Leo, you're queer in 2026. You're a political act.
- Melba in Tip Toe, S01E01
MELBA
I live in hope.

LEO
Don't, Melba.

Tip Toe, S01E01
Roux
Lucas Jacob

From the French,
and so r-o-u-x, not
an Old English name
for misgiving, though
it would be nice
to be able to roux
the day,
smoothing it out
as it darkens.
now         the wordless apples
- jenny grassl
JOÃO VICENTE
Eu lembro que, quando eu escrevia poesia pequeno, eu era muito dramático.
"Ai, como é triste ser triste", sabe?

GREGORIO DUVIVIER
Uma melancolia estética.

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GREGORIO DUVIVIER
[Eu] 'tava [com] uma mente muito fragilizada, claramente, ali. Eu caí na poesia.

JOÃO VICENTE
Você caiu na poesia? Graças a Deus. 

GREGORIO DUVIVIER
Que é uma forma também de abraçar os derrotados.

JOÃO VICENTE
É uma forma de você sofrer com alguém sem ninguém.

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gustavo keno eu não te conhecia
wanessa wolf eu te amo
Under the evening moon
the snail
      is stripped to the waist.

Kobayashi Issa
All the time I pray to Buddha
I keep on
    killing mosquitoes.

Kobayashi Issa
Marcia Riederer/ Ocean Photographer of the Year

LA Express Carwash 
Ross John Farrar

I’ve been losing so much lately. The designer sun glasses, only had them
a week. I lost the keys to my office, then a library book, The Dictionary of
American Slang. A page dog-eared at “Garbo: Half an English muffin.” So,
I bought ginkgo biloba & tried to stop drinking.

I’ve almost given up caring about what I have, since it’s just going
to be me until I’m no longer. Someone said we only lose things we don’t
care about, but I’ve lost hair & skin cells & so many perfect days.

We were saying goodbye. You were soon to drop me off for good, but first
we had to visit the car wash. Mercy, I thought.

Men in green & white jumpers motioned us in, the wheels catching track,
which made us feel like floating, so we floated through like a submarine.
A machine came down like the leafless organs of climbing plants, giant
soapy tendrils licked the glass.

All I wanted was for the car to stop, for us to sit there in the dark, watching
bubbles on the windshield grow & pop. We bobbed forward, still trapped,
while water evaporated all around us.
Please, let me keep this.
I’ve been trying to tell you that what I have
now is what I lost

Sarah Bates
Aniline Dye 
Albe Harlow

who
knew
the violence

   not only
picked

the heads
but counted them
       counted them

as they colored
  magenta
my garden
dearest madonna
by AR

movement does not replace language 
movement 
is what language does we

are never out of language we may
be out of words but never 
out of meaning there 

are languages that do not know
they are languages 
too
 
silence

is a language
shutting itself

to listen
to you