- "want in a person / is like hunger in a dog" - the curious thing, sandra lim
- "you dangle on the leash of your own longing; your need grows teeth" - speeches for dr frankenstein, margaret atwood
- "let grief be a bridge, let love be relentless, / let our deaths make us immortal, a reminder / that life in winter persists persists" - pomegranate, sol rios
- "i will tidy up the kitchen / (if you promise you'll stay) / & we can keep leaving / behind our dead." - skin to bone, dante émile
- "there is no reason for this, only / a starved dog's logic about bones." - more and more, margaret atwood
- "the space where you should be / grows larger each day, & / i keep reaching out for hands / that are three countries away." - end of summer, start of something, dante émile
- "touch me so i know i am still here / break me so i know i have changed" - time is a mother, ocean vuong
- "i know threat / is not object but state / (of being); because i love him, he is everyone's / threat; i bloody / my hands for him, so he must be God" - ars poetica with parallel dimensions, george abraham
- "i think i can love someone / who cares enough to bruise for me. / he touches his thumb to the corner of my mouth, / pulls back my lip to consider my teeth." - brute, emily skaja
- "i have a hole in me / the hole swallows everything / i will be forgiven / nothing" - pig, sam sax
- "god looks so plainly like me / i don't know what i expected" - simple things, silas denver melvin
- "we are in love. / he tenderly gouges out my eyes." - how festive the ambulance, kim fu
- "the worst part of love is / that i remember it. / i walk around all day thinking: / i'm going to die in the universe you loved me in. / i get so jealous of euthanized dogs." - i love you, it looks like rain, june gehringer
- "it is not poetry's job to wipe away tears. / poetry should dig a trench where they can overflow and drown the universe." - untitled poem, iv, zakaria mohammed
- "i want to love something. / i want to love something without having to apologize for it. please don't tell." - i'm not speaking first, hala alyan
- "sometimes fear / is the only thing in my body when i consider that body mine." - ghost of my ghosts, sol rios
- "i am ready to be every animal / you leave behind." - thanksgiving 2006, ocean vuong
- "i will hold your hair / in my broken hands. / i will kiss the life / that seeps out of you at night. / i will read the notes / handwritten on your back." - little international waltz, dante émile
- "how terrifying it must be to be so soft. how beautiful to be so luminous." - cherry blossoms, topaz winters
- "it's hard to say i need you enough." - morning love poem, tara skurtu
- "my god, will i ever not be surprised by what i can survive?" - let me be a lamb in a world that wants my lion, ruth awad
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