I dream that I am Oedipus.

- Sylvia Plath

It persuades, indeed.

What is it to wish for the absence of nothing?

- Layli Long Soldier

A piece combined with others to

make up a whole. Some but not all of something.

- Layli Long Soldier

If I’m transformed by language, I am often

crouched in footnote or blazing in title.

Where in the body do I begin

- Layli Long Soldier

Everything is in the language we use.

- Layli Long Soldier

thirsty & unappease

- kamau brathwaite

the dream less clear

- kamau brathwaite

I cogitate I

tune up to

terms of pre

vailing stand

ards

accept

ability

enunci

ation

- Layli Long Soldier

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