Tell me something good,
just one good thing, just tell me
something that will get me through
the hours the days the weeks

- Margaret Atwood
It
Rae Armantrout

The sky grayed and it was possible to name objects.

They didn’t yet call out to me. This happened only
when the sun touched their skins.

Then they would do tricks.

Perhaps a silver
bracelet of raindrops
suspended from a bone
thin twig,

almost a crib mobile.

But now I’ve called it several things.
eu queria escrever 
um poema mas estou com dor de cabeça 

eu queria escrever 
uma cabeça mas estou com dor de poema

- AR
If you
were here
I could drive
in the HOV lane.
Loneliness
moves so
slow.

- Andrea Gibson
Yesterday I carved your name into the surface
of an ice cube then held it against my chest
’til it melted into my aching pores.

- Andrea Gibson
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Émile Durkhein dizia que o sagrado é a pressão que uma pessoa sente do social sobre ela, dizendo que aquilo é intocável, poderoso, especial. A ideia de que a sociedade pode levar você a pensar determinada coisa, sentir determinada coisa, tá aí; tá clara na sociologia.

(...)

Dizer que é uma construção social não adianta nada para quem sofre o mal. Por isso que o ditado americano me parece tão significativo: “Eu tô me afogando e você descreve a água.”

- Luiz Felipe Pondé, Linhas Cruzadas (25/06/2026)
“Fall / in love / with your solitude.”
says the Instagram poet
with 1.6 million
followers.
Maybe it was
“Eat your hunger.”

- Rae Armantrout
Distribution
Rae Armantrout

You think category
isn’t sexy, isn’t
sex. Seems you’re wrong.

Don’t worry. We have
dozens of them, each revamping
the last. A thing

must be recognizable
in order to be
a thing. After a while

you’ll want to introduce
some novelty, but since
it’s been a while

this could come off
as desperate.
Don’t be mad.

You’d like to punish
the smug, crisply packaged
faux-finite?

We have accessories for that.
Guises
Rae Armantrout

I come up
again and again
as if from the ground,
as if in a dream,
see that I’m naked
and cover myself
in a likeness,
oh Lord,
“iconic.”
As if a pebble
could speak for a cave
about “desire”
from a mile off
This trauma isn't a judgment on yourself or who you are.
- Dr Blake in The Agency, S01E08
SAMI
I keep forgetting, we're strangers.

MARTIAN
I know who you are. I know who we are. This is who I am.

SAMI
Is this real?

MARTIAN
It's real.

SAMI
I recognize the face, and I love the man I recognize.
But there's someone else who I can see, who I don't know.

The Agency, S02E07
Psst
Charles Simic

Don’t go psst
With a finger
Over your lips,
You seated behind me at the movies,
Or in church
Where I bow my head to pray,
Or in this dive
Where I’m the sole customer,
Shushing me
Out of a dark corner
As I hum to myself
With eyes closed
Thinking of God-knows-what.
Wellness check
Andrea Gibson

In any moment,
on any given day,
I can measure
my wellness
by this question:
Is my attention on loving,
or is my attention on
who isn’t loving me?
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