There Is Also The Waiting, The Kind Which Has Survived Hundreds Of Tides And Ebbs Of Hours...Take Them

I have dreamed of you so much that you are no longer real.

- Robert Desnos

Perpendicular lines are Chekhovian; the introduced gun goes off. Parallel lines are Hitchcockian; the present bomb is enough.

- Heather Christle, The Crying Book

and in a windowless attic some of me is in the smoke rising from the chimney

Anna Frajlich, Here I Am tr. Regina Grol

How I did waste and exhaust my heart.

Anne Carson, Kinds of Water

“You / bring out the sea in me, so wade. / Wade in this.”

— Jasmine Reid, from “Instructions for the Moon,” Deus Ex Nigrum

- take it all / - it’s too little

- Agata Tuszyńska, tr. Regina Grol

“Tell me what you know about the body, and I will tell you how it must turn against itself.”

— Seam: ‘Interview with a Birangona’ by Tarfia Faizullah

the whole world around me expanding and contracting, visually and viscerally heaving.

- Heather Christle, The Crying Book

but indirectly children know everything there is to know. They just don't know why.

Nancy Milford, Savage Beauty

she taught me the poems of these death-facing women and I understood them to be my mothers.

- Heather Christle, The Crying Book