Is silence a gift?

I can’t hear my bones shrinking,

- Victoria Chang

The past is never finished,

the future is scared.

- Victoria Chang

Avoiding news by the river

Victoria Chang

All the announcements.

The mayflies land on a leaf.

No one there ever looks up.

The flight

Victoria Chang

I no longer watch

the birds during the day. I

prefer to save them

for my dreams where an owl’s face

has more than one expression.

Youth stretches over

everything, can be used once.

Then we turn it inside out.

- Victoria Chang

Forecast

Harryette Mullen

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is it love that you’re seeking, or permission?

- victoria adukwei bulley

when you’ve done enough, are you the last to know?

- victoria adukwei bulley

O país está cheio de boatos, de todo tipo. sobre todos os assuntos, todos eles perigosos. Quer dizer, prejudiciais. As pessoas só fazem cochichar. Não acreditam nos jornais, não acreditam nos melhores oradores, mas acreditam em todo boato assustador que aparece por aí. As pessoas... as pessoas parecem estar à beira do pânico.

- Ayn Rand em A revolta de Atlas, Jim

Poet or poem or reader, the same

ectoplasm. 

- Diane Seuss

My adult son calls me at noon to ask

if I ever loved his father. How can I

express that marital love is twelve banalities ago?

- Diane Seuss

A word can be overused into emptiness,

which is also a banality, so don’t tell anyone you love them.

- Diane Seuss

To return

to the world, I must learn

how to love the world again. My problem

is with the word again.

- Diane Seuss