I know "inflated tear"

means worlds approaching pain

& colliding

- Yusef Komunyakaa

crooning desire

- yusef komunyakaa

This naked,

exposed wound lust, 

this tormenting, 

twisted, tangled 

love

- James Roach

His honeyed words
stick to the caverns
of my heart

- James Roach

It is luck, then. That is what you will blame. That is

what you will learn: that it has no meaning. It was not 

because you needed to become a better person; it will not 

teach you anything about yourself. It happened because

sometimes bad things happen and sometimes they happen

to you. It will deny you the chance to find purpose in it; there 

is nothing to believe in except that it does not make sense.

- Grace Alvino

Menace

Simon Collinson

All magpies marching

So saucily, ready

To cha-cha attack.

the boys are 

              everywhere and not 

noticing or 

looking at 

me

- aaron rachel selby

Pode ficar apavorado — mas tenha consciência de que isso talvez seja sua sensibilidade.

- Ilana Casoy em Joyce Pascowitch Entrevista, 26/04/2026

a frayed organism of emotion

- p. scott cunningham

I yuck a yum

even when I don’t want to, I can’t help it

- P. Scott Cunningham

Where do I belong?

My head asks. My body,

exasperated, answers.

- P. Scott Cunningham

hateful rhetoric

selective outrage

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