I can:
be alone
do the dishes
read books
make sentences
listen
and be happy
without feeling guilty.

Tove Ditlevsen
And we here bask in the debris
- Bianca Stone
Me abrace para sempre me abrace.
Ponti Pontedura
entre as flores lascivas
que imaginou
Robert Mapplethorpe

Pompeyo Pérez Díaz
morrendo em silêncio, perto de pássaros, sendo pássaros
- eduardo rodrigues
O espelho
estava diante de mim
não para exibir
mas para testemunhar

Sophia Jamali Soufi
Depois de Alexis Romero
A. Melo

digo goiaba
e algo morde de volta

não a palavra—
mas o intervalo

onde a semente insiste
em não caber no nome
Perfuração do paladar, disse Lacan

com a simples palavra
goiaba
não acontecem versos
com a simples
palavra
apenas
vermes
e algum choro de semente
com sentido de coágulo
Hush. Some 
events are better
experienced than 
explained. Take soul.

Samantha Thornhill
inertia’s at the front door lobbying for a way into the funk
- daniel b. summerhill
Instead of Depression
Andrea Gibson

try calling it hibernation.
Imagine the darkness is a cave
in which you will be nurtured
by doing absolutely nothing.
Hibernating animals don’t even dream.
It’s okay if you can’t imagine
Spring. Sleep through the alarm
of the world. Name your hopelessness
a quiet hollow, a place you go
to heal, a den you dug,
Sweetheart, instead
of a grave.
I am aware of a necessity of moving
but I do nothing.

John Berryman
The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men
Gang aft agley

- Robert Burns mentioned in Outlander, S08E05
And I, nearly extinct
Sylvia Plath