In 2005, Bon Iver Locked Himself In A Log Cabin In Wisconsin For A Now-legendary Vibe Check

from behind a / pillar / of unarrived / moments

- Zofia Zarębianka, tr. Regina Grol

There is a solitude in this world

I cannot pierce. I would die for it.

- Ada Limón, Drowning Creek

I say we but it's just an illusion that our hearts beat in unison

Wisława Szymborska, We tr. Regina Grol

I take the soil in

my clean fingers and to say

I weep is untrue, weep is too

musical a word. I heave

into the soil. You cannot die.

I just came to this life

again, alive in my silent way.

- Ada Limón, Invasive

I fear that to write so much about crying will tempt a universal law of irony to invite tragedy into my life.

- Heather Christle, The Crying Book

Tears are a sign of powerlessness, a ‘woman’s weapon.’ It has been a very long war.

- Heather Christle, The Crying Book

There is no question I am someone starving. There is no question I am making this journey to find out what that appetite is. And I see him free of it, as if he had simply crossed to the other side of the bridge, I see desire set free in him like some ray of mysterious light. Now tell me the truth, would you cross that bridge if you came to it? And where, if you made the grave choice to give up bread, would it take you?

Anne Carson, Kinds of Water

“I drink to our ruined house To the evil of my life To our loneliness together And I drink to you— To the lying lips that have betrayed us, To the dead-cold eyes, To the fact that the world is brutal and coarse To the fact that God did not save us.”

— Anna Akhmatova, Last Toast, trans. by Kate Farris and Ilya Kaminsky

'Come close to me, come closer. I promise it will be beautiful.'

Anaïs Nin, Henry and June

october, mary oliver