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filling spice jars as your wife by Kai Coggin

Jeremy Radin, from "Lazar Wolf the Butcher" (poem written during staging of Fiddler on the Roof at Paper Mill Playhouse, shared on his IG page) [ID'd]

Safia Elhillo from “Geneva”, Girls That Never Die: Poems

I don't know how to talk about this

Leila Chatti, from "Postcard from Gone"

Ruth Awad, from “Reasons To Live”

Eden Robinson, “Writing Prompts for the Broken-hearted”

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You can put your strength down. I’m sitting here with you at your kitchen table. You don’t need to say anything.

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Maggie Millner, from Couplets: A Love Story; “Coda”

this is going to have me on my hands and knees dry heaving

what the FUCK man.

i’m in the middle of a rebirth give me some time

— Francis King, from “The Glass House,” Indirect Method and Other Stories (Hutchinson, 1980)

Mary Karr

i hope that when i die there will be an apartment with everyone i’ve ever loved in it and we are together always

Yves Olade, from Dark When It Gets Dark; “Topograph”

Michael Schmeltzer, from "The Body Full of Riddles"

love as violence

‘i will tell this story to the sun until you remember that you are the sun,’ erin slaughter // roberto ferri // crimson peak (2013) dir. guillermo del toro // the borgias (2011-2013) dir. neil jordan // hiroshima mon amour (1959), marguerite duras // hiroshima mon amour (1959) dir. alain resnais // ‘boyish,’ japanese breakfast // gone girl (2014) dir. david fincher

wip ♥️ u don’t have 2 belong everywhere