#the heart is a severed kind of muscle

musings on loneliness

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Source: old-school-romantics

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It’s as tho we were separated at birth, our backs touching because we weren’t taught how to ask for love. [...]

Sam Cheuk, Postscripts from a City Burning; “11/21/19”

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Natalie Díaz, from "American Arithmetic", Postcolonial Love Poem

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[ Text ID: I am begging: Let me be lonely but not invisible. ]

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“I don’t live in exile / exile lives in me”

— — Fiston Mwanza Mujila, from “SOLITUDE 12,” The River in the Belly, tr. J. Bret Maney

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In the last battle, all that remains are impressions: Memories played out in our age of innocence, stardust for those eleven kinds of loneliness.

Dieu Dinh, Tender Cracks; “Untitled Titles”

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Hatim Al Kinani, tr. & ed. Adil Babikir, Modern Sudanese Poetry: An Anthology; “Skies”

[Text ID: I am inflicted with the moon, with your eyelashes, with sleepless loneliness.]

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[…] Our cursed hearts (endless chambers of mourning where the last gasp sounds)

Charles Baudelaire, tr. Aaron Poochigian, The Flowers of Evil, from “Spleen and the Ideal”; “Obsession”

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How my solitude becomes you! How I find you! How I love you! How I die in you! My solitude!

Dulce María Loynaz, tr. James O’Connor, Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems; “L”

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This unstitched loneliness keeps bleeding out of my hands. I was always ready to be someone else. […]

Noor Unnahar, New Names for Lost Things; “A Personal Tragedy”

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Did you see how loneliness shrouds everything that isn’t held?

Noor Unnahar, New Names for Lost Things; “A Questionnaire”

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Yosano Akiko, tr. Kenneth Rexroth & Ikuko Atsumi, Women Poets of Japan; “Labor Pains”

[Text ID: I am alone. / It is alone I am.]

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This city has been eating its loneliness again […]

Noor Unnahar, New Names for Lost Things; “Lucid Dreaming”

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Loneliness is a tense in which actions can be declined. [...]

Yehuda Amichai, tr. Ruth Nevo, Travels

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The world gave me many things, but the only thing I ever kept was absolute solitude.

Dulce María Loynaz, tr. James O’Connor, Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems; “VII”

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I don't know when love became elusive. / [...] / What I know is that no one I knew had it.

Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head; “Unbearable Weight of Staying”

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Morgan Parker, Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night; “Epistolary Poem for Reader, Brother, Grandmother, Men (or, When I Say I Want to Spit You Up)”

[Text ID: I am more comfortable / being mourned than loved.]

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