His artfully unkempt strawberry blonde head sports outsized headphones.  Like a contemporary bust.  Behold the innocence of the freckles, ripe pout of cherry lips.  As if the mere sight of the world hurts him, he squints greenly and applies saline drops.  You dream him crying over you.  For the duration of a subway ride you fall blindly in love.  Until he exits. Or you exit, returning home to the one you truly love to ravish him.

- Joseph O. Legaspi

I’m alive of course

Because others died

- Sam Sax

Calling on All Silent Minorities

June Jordan

HEY

C’MON

COME OUT

WHEREVER YOU ARE

WE NEED TO HAVE THIS MEETING

AT THIS TREE

AIN’ EVEN BEEN

PLANTED

YET

When I or Else

June Jordan

when I or else when you

and I or we

deliberate I lose I

cannot choose if you if

we then near or where

unless I stand as loser

of that losing possibility

that something that I have

or always want more than much

more at

least to have as less and

yes directed by desire

I have no intention of moving on, ever. I will never love again. I won't even try.

- Stacy in The Madison, S01E02

This 

romance of self

you can't escape, and you don't want to.

- Miguel Murphy

Echo is a way to create space, is a metaphor for time.

- Taylor Johnson

cuidado —

dizem

o travessão

agora pensa

e escreve —

melhor não usar

- ChatGPT

Time too is afraid of passing, is riddled with holes

through which time feels itself leaking.

- Joy Ladin

pretending to understand Heidegger

- Joy Ladin

God is Change,

And in the end,

God prevails.

But meanwhile...

Kindness eases Change.

Love quiets fear.

- Octavia E. Butle

I don’t want to be a person

but there isn’t a choice

- Joshua Jennifer Espinoza

It is

the end of the world, and it’s fine. People laugh

about this, self-soothing engines sputtering

through a nosedive.

- Joshua Jennifer Espinoza

Once, I believed god

was a blanket of energy

stretched out around

our most vulnerable

places,

when really,

she’s the sound

of a promise

breaking

- Joshua Jennifer Espinoza