“oh, all my dead— i ate them i choked”
— Alejandra Pizarnik, from On This Night, In This World in “Extracting The Stone Of Madness: Poems”
[translated by Yvette Siegert]
“(…) clutching at moons and echoes and emptiness and shadow,”
— Margaret Atwood, from Your Children Cut Their Hands… in “The Door”
“I will take a crowbar and pry out the broken pieces of God in me.”
— Anne Sexton, from The Civil War in “The Complete Poems Of Anne Sexton”
“No breath beyond the forest. Just quiet. The dream of what came.”
— Joanna Klink, from Aftermaths And Wish-Clouds in “Raptus”
The Lovers of Valdaro, discovered by archaeologists at a tomb in San Giorgio near Mantua, Italy. The couple have been holding one another for 6,000 years.