how beautiful it was to know that you

were there like an oasis

- julio cortázar

the light that fell in love with statues

- howard moss

A silence already filled with noises

- John Ashbery

There are parts of you

that want the sadness.

Find them out. Ask them why.

- Yrsa Daley-Ward

love doesn’t always mean you should stay

- yrsa daley-ward

panacea

yrsa daley-ward

You told me I seemed haunted.

It was three a.m. and you could still smell

the storm clouds under my skin.

You can’t quell depression by making

love.

But we tried.

But we tried,

oh, we did.

You’re so quiet you’re almost

                                                 tomorrow.

- Ocean Vuong

Caravaggio, 1986

Commuter Tanka

Tarik Dobbs

     I am told the cows

               accept new cows on the spot.

                                                What iteration

               of events will we live through

at sunrise on Highway Ten?

Color of the flowers

has already faded away

while in idle thoughts

my life passes vainly by,

as I watch the long rains fall.

- Ono no Komachi

passa o espaço da palavra com sua selva sem margem

- mário chamie

I am not my body. Get me out of here.

- Tommy Pico

Hope

is a charred skeleton

of a house visible from a road that snakes

through the valley of memory

where fig trees burst from the ground like throaty laughter.

- Tommy Pico