Stay

Jericho Brown 

                      It was restful, learning nothing necessary.

                      Gwendolyn Brooks

All day, I kept still just to think of it—

Your body above mine, what was

A lack of air between us—hot but restful

As I sat center on my bed of learning,

Mouth open, touching nothing,

My memory the only noise necessary.

I begin with love, hoping to end there.

- Jericho Brown 

Aflame and unafraid.

- Amanda Gorman

Photographs visit me

- Sylvia Plath 

Afinal, não sou fonte de mel

Nos olhos de gueixa

Por que me atacariam?

Kabuki, máscara

- Sylvia Plath & Caetano Veloso

o silêncio estourava seus ouvidos

 - ayn rand, a revolta de atlas, sobre dagny

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