I am spending my life, I thought. I am un-

prepared. It is running thru

my fingers. The wind is

still wild. My bones hurt sometimes

causing pain. It is not terror.

I feel for the cash in my pocket.

I do not have time to prepare.

I am comfortable.

Time passes and I am still here. I am

getting by. I replace one

calendar with another.

- Jorie Graham

I loved all the things so much I tried

to stick them one to another.

- Robert Wood Lynn

I feel that ignorant love gave me

a life. But from within my illusion of him

I could not see him, or know him. I did not

have the art or there’s no art

to find the mind’s construction in the face:

he was a gentleman on whom I built

an absolute trust.

- Sharon Olds

I am a stunned knower of not

- Sharon Olds

Punjabi Disco

Nu-Disco e +

She so listens to Sophie Ellis-Bextor

& remember,

loneliness is still time spent

with the world

- ocean vuong

Unspoken suffering

Hides nothing but thunder and lightning!

- Nguyễn Chí Thiện

Vertigem sem apoio

AR

Os cristais saíram do labirinto—

pendem os olhos em giro.

Minotauro, Minotauro,

onde você está?

Sem brilho,

nem mesmo o chão

sei encontrar.

When the prison guards burned his manuscripts, Nguyễn Chí

   Thiện couldn’t stop

            laughing—the 283 poems already inside him.

- Ocean Vuong

I forgot his name by heart.

- Ocean Vuong

don’t

     be afraid

to be this

     luminous

to be so bright so

     empty

- ocean vuong

     some call this

being human but you

     already know

it’s the briefest form

     of forever

- ocean vuong