If beauty is what matters,

we’ll enjoy it

for nothing, from nowhere,

no matter who

is gone.

- Rae Armantrout

What is the meaning of disquiet?

How does it differ

from anxiety

commotion?

- Rae Armantrout

Question:

How are beauty

and meaning

connected?

Beauty seduces meaning.

Meaning stalks beauty.

Beauty breaks down

into meaning.

Meaning breaks down

into dreams.

- Rae Armantrout

Do I believe

that formulating

a problem

in the starkest

possible way

while making strange

and conspicuous

word choices

is helpful?

What if the answer

is no?

- Rae Armantrout

colonialism broke us, and we’re still figuring out how to love and be 

broken at the same time.

- billy-ray belcourt

all that is left is the signified.

- billy-ray belcourt

you dreamt me out of existence.

- billy-ray belcourt

if i have a name,

let it be the sound his lips make.

there is no word in my language for this.

- billy-ray belcourt

I hear eternity

Is self-forgetting. 

- Lynn Xu

Hold on tight.

In the depths of outer space

Is man.

- Lynn Xu

theory we’ve confused happiness

with someone being able to say our name to us

- andrew mcmillian

amou as coisas duráveis

quase imortais

- zbigniew herbert

ensina-me ó rio a ser teimoso e persistente

- zbigniew herbert

mas não tenha raiva aceite

- zbigniew herbert

os filhos não têm culpa merecem gratidão e somos gratos

- zbigniew herbert