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-Richard Siken, "War of the Foxes"

[TEXT ID: "Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story." ID END]

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firstfullmoon

The sky moves from gray to yellow to blue and I am missing you in the way that spreads.

— Maggie Nelson, from “The Canal Diaries,” in Something Bright, Then Holes

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metamorphesque

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Sappho | Leonardo Bistolfi | Safet Zec | Richard Siken | Brokeback Mountain (dir. Ang Lee) | Emery Allen | Ron Hicks | Jorge Luis Borges | Holly Warburton | Richard Siken | Joseph Lorusso

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excerpt from Matins, Louise Glück

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aconissa

TO BE MADE AND REMADE IN A LOVER’S HANDS

Natalie Diaz, ‘Postcolonial Love Poem’ Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours (trans. Barrows & Macy) Auguste Rodin, Cathedral & Combinations Audre Lorde, ‘On a Night of the Full Moon’ Margaret Atwood, Power Politics James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

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Some of my favorite lines from Snow and Dirty Rain, Richard Siken (via my twitter)

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from somewhere I have never traveled, gladly beyond, e.e. cummings

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Anne Sexton, Complete Poems

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angelethic

mary oliver / from “west wind”

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angria

“she believes she has been a prisoner since she has been a daughter.”

— Louise Glück, from “Persephone the Wanderer”, Averno (2006)

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“God, I have touched the living face of a person I love with the same hands I have touched the dying face of someone I love and none of that seems fair.”

—Hanif Abdurraqib, On Seatbelts and Sunsets (source)

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Richard Siken, Details of the Woods

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“thirteen lines that predict and summarize a life” | from Crush, Richard Siken

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from Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman

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Sleeping In The Forest by Mary Oliver

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darkfruits

My heart is made up of a series of rooms. Some of them are filled up with books, and sunlight, and warm desire. But others have dark shadows and locked doors. Those rooms are haunted.

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from Not Even This, a new poem from Ocean Vuong

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