It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over, Anne de Marcken
Unravel, Tolu Oloruntoba
Kaveh Akbar, from "Wild Pear Tree"
Find Me as the Creature I Am, Emily Jungmin Yoon
أَللّٰهُـــــمَّ إني اسألك حسن الخاتمة
O Allah, I ask you for a good ending...
Winter is for listening to the same music you were listening to at 15. Unfortunately
“Shame thrives in silence, and wants more of it. The language of shame is silence. I wanted to incorporate silence, and silencing, into a poem, and was able to approximate that by blacking out language. What is unsaid becomes a visible absence—the hole I was writing around.”
— Leila Chatti, from an interview with Sneha Subramanian Kanta in Parentheses Journal, Issue 10 (via skgroutpoetry)
Saints of Little Faith, Megan Pinto
Wrong Norma, Anne Carson
don't ever look up what your childhood friends are up to now!!!!!!!!!! like girl you're a nuclear safety engineer. i put on matching socks today. we played tag a thousand years ago.