IF THE MOON SMILED, SHE WOULD RESEMBLE YOU

mercy, andrea dworkin

Postcolonial Love Poem, Natalie Diaz

Mary Oliver

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the beast you made of me

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Ocean Vuong ||| Nickie Zimov

Of all my dead it’s you

who come to me unfinished

— Adrienne Rich, A Woman Dead in her Forties

“I am the hurting kind. I keep searching for proof. […] Love ends. But what if it doesn’t?”

— Ada Limon, from “The Hurting Kind,” The Hurting Kind: Poems (Milkweed Editions, 2022)

Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous