And The Moon Is The Mouth Of A Lover

the tenderness…. 

free me from my longing

Anna Czekanowicz, tr. Regina Grol

You never refuse. You simply don't speak.

Alicja Rybałko, A Prayer for the Forbidden Fruit tr. Regina Grol

'I'll go.' But he doesn't go. He uses the future not the present tense

Niall Williams, History of the Rain

As far as words go, crying is louder and weeping is wetter.

- Heather Christle, The Crying Book

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

but you, in this wilderness alone You've got to live to take the next bite

Dagna Ślepowrońska, tr. Regina Grol

if the grief is unbearable is there another way to live with it that is not the same as bearing it?

- Judith Butler

the equable but confused light of a summer’s morning in which everything is seen but nothing is seen distinctly

- Virginia Woolf, Orlando

An attempt to intensify the horror by containing it in symmetry.

- Heather Christle, The Crying Book