Forgive me for inviting you into the unsafety of language.

- Maryhilda Obasiota Ibe

we are a concerning type of forever

- jason b. crawford

Apocrypha

Rae Armantrout

Dead satellite speaks.

Person with unique

blood type discovered.

Rodents evolving in real time.

Ways humans can escape

the earth.

___

Joints grind like

shot brakes.

Food ignites

in our stomachs.

But we’re still muffin-bunnies,

muddle-buckets,

cuddle-chunks.

Then Again

Rae Armantrout

I prefer what’s centripetal

or recursive,

what bends inward

like a shell’s ridges

because meaning is half

déjà vu.

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Then again

I like what’s loose,

far-flung, and dubious

like rumor

or cottonwood chaff

because meaning is promiscuous.

It is a joy to be hidden and disaster not to be found.

- Donald Winnicott

Each of us at each other’s backs

whispering over and over and over,

Live. Live. Live.

- Andrea Gibson

Pick me up in a truck with that bumper sticker that says,

“It is no measure of good health

to be well adjusted to a sick society.”

- Andrea Gibson

You are not alone

in wondering who will be convicted of the crime

of insisting you keep loading your grief

into the chamber of your shame.

You are not weak

just because your heart feels so heavy.

- Andrea Gibson

Some of us know Love

is not the only closet

we will be told never to come out of.

There is also the closet of Grief.

The closet of Sorrow.

The closet of Panic.

- Andrea Gibson

My panic is not a lifeguard,

but you can’t tell my panic that.

My panic googled, “How to perform CPR on yourself.”

- Andrea Gibson

busy with alone

- danez smith

A atomização e a narcisização crescente da sociedade nos ensurdece perante a voz do outro. Levam igualmente à perda da empatia. Hoje, cada um presta homenagem ao culto de si mesmo. Cada um performa e se produz. Não é a personalização algorítmica da rede, mas o desaparecimento do outro, a incapacidade de ouvir atentamente, que é responsável pela crise da democracia.

- Byung-Chul Han, Infocracia: digitalização e a crise da democracia (2022)

As coisas não são todas tão compreensíveis e dizíveis quanto geralmente nos fazem crer.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

Tell all the truth but tell it slant.

- Emily Dickinson