You can’t stay vigilant and remain alive.

- Diane Seuss

Oh dream, why do you do me this way?

- Diane Seuss

You can’t hide

from what you made

inside what you made

- Diane Seuss

 Why do you dread being forgotten?

- Alison C. Rollins

I know now that what is tragic isn’t the moment.

It is the memory.

- Jacqueline Woodson

Not burning, but aflame

- Gabrielle Bates

If I describe something, anything, long enough,

language will lead me back to wanting it.

- Gabrielle Bates

There is more to say, but my speaking

is done with me.

- Gabrielle Bates

Over and over, unevolving

- Gabrielle Bates

Complete focus can resemble utter distraction

- Gabrielle Bates

How can you go toward what you’re avoiding?

- Gabrielle Bates

Time and place are traps.

- Gabrielle Bates

What language did the angel speak

       My most private language

Was the angel fluent

       Nuances were lost

- Gabrielle Bates, “Conversation with Mary,” Judas Goat (Tin House, 2023), excerto.

Os jornalistas estavam anotando suas respostas. Havia agora em seus rostos a expressão de um autômato que faz de conta que está ouvindo uma notícia nos pronunciamentos vazios feitos por outro autômato.

- Ayn Rand, A revolta de Atlas

Oh look,

a typo

in the

Rosetta Stone.

- Justin Chin