Without
- "Our love of each other was like two long shadows
kissing without hope of reality"
(Anis Nin) 
Something uninhabited
"There is a silence outside you in every language,
something is being prepared, it is not you who is doing it,
there is a conversation outside you between hand and eye,
the air is still mild and the autumn’s silence a song
in all that is most inward outside you."
(Bo Carpelan)
God doesn't know our names
"In the coffin my room has become,
I talk to God
about the infrequency of rain
about people who can't see the current gentleness
running under the pale crust of my skin."
(Maura O'Connor)
In the Museum of Your Last Day
There is a watch laid smooth on a wallet.
And pairs of your shoes everywhere.
A phone no one answers. A note that says Friday.
Your voice on the tape talking softly.
(Patrick Phillis)
Like a naked evening
You are going, and nothing of this have I given you.
I never reached to where your being lies bare.
You are going, and nothing of me are you taking with you -
leaving me to defeat.
(Karin Boye)
Into winter
I am not at peace, I tell her. I want to fail. I am hungry
for what I am becoming. What will you do? she asks. I will
continue north, carrying the past in my arms, flying into winter.
(Jack Gilbert)
For a while
And, for a while, I thought I was
the princess,
cotton candy pink, sitting there in my room, in the tower of the castle,
young and beautiful and in love and waiting for you with confidence
but the princess looks into her mirror and only sees the princess,
while I’m out here
(Richard Siken)- Sunday morning postcard from this place
This is the place
you would rather not know about
This is the place that will inhabit you
This is the place you cannot imagine
This is the place that will finally defeat you
where the word why shrivels and empties
itself. This is famine.
(Margaret Atwood) - As it was written
Your clouds wear white,
trying to become nuns
and say novenas to the sky.
(Anne Sexton)
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