“No breath beyond the forest. Just quiet. The dream of what came.”
— Joanna Klink, from Aftermaths And Wish-Clouds in “Raptus”
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“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]
“I am entirely and for ever my own mistress.”
— Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry written c. July 1940 featured in “Diaries,”
“(A lake touched me in my dream.)”
— Birhan Keskin, from And Silk and Love and Flame: Poems; “Glacier,”
“You smell of honey, of desire,”
— Remy de Gourmont, tr. by Jethro Bithell, from “Hair,” c. June 1858