O ser humano é indefinido. Ele é o único ser que não tem uma definição na natureza.
- Pico della Mirandola citado por Luiz Felipe Pondé em Linhas Cruzadas (23/09/2026)

a thought is a forest

- jane hirshfield

I told my grief: patience.

- Jane Hirshfield

I pressed myself to the clear glass

between wanting and world.

I wanted to be lush, tropical,

excessive. To be green.

- Jane Hirshfield

Fire Strike

Margaret Noodin

At the threshold

of melancholy

is a voice barely heard

a light wrapped in fog

and a piece of steel

longing for flint.

Strike it.

I have my heart on my fist
Like a blind falcon.

- Anne Hébert

And the mirages, the

            mirages—

            I knew what they were

yet often

changed my course 

            and followed them.

- Robert Hayden

On some days, my depression is over there in a picnic basket while I am

over here looking at art.

- Victoria Chang

Now the name I was given is no longer fitting

We don’t remember our birth.

When a mother dies, it’s gone.

- Victoria Chang

The ocean is a

bully, always insisting

it understands hope the best.

- Victoria Chang

One by one, days died,

even they weren’t protected.

They have no symptoms

but keep dying. They want to

fix melancholy,

to keep coming back to no

answers, to take the

depositions of orchards.

- Victoria Chang

Waves in August

Victoria Chang

The waves never die.

In May, they look like reason.

They are not violent.

By August, all hope is gone,

even stars are arrested.

I will never love

anyone the way I love

my memories and their cliffs.

- Victoria Chang