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Joy Sullivan, from “These Days People Are Really Selling Me On California”, Instructions for Traveling West

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Statue of poet Sappho (2nd century CE, Smyrna) at the Istanbul Archeological Museum.

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“I don’t remember how to say home in my first language, or lonely, or light I remember only delam barat tang shodeh, I miss you, and shab bekheir, goodnight.”

Kaveh Akbar, ‘Do You Speak Persian?’

“I can’t speak my own language - Iesu, All those good words; And I outside them.”

R.S. Thomas, ‘Welsh’

“It’s an ancient story from yesterday evening called “Patterns of Love in Peoples of Diaspora,” called “Loss of the Homeplace and the Defilement of the Beloved,” called “I Want to Sing but I Don’t Know Any Songs”.”

Li-Young Lee, ‘Immigrant Blues’

“The fact that I am writing to you in English already falsifies what I wanted to tell you. My subject: how to explain to you that I don’t belong to English though I belong nowhere else.”

Gustavo Pérez Firmat, Bilingual Blues

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Joy Sullivan, from “Move to Oregon in July”, Instructions for Traveling West

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it’s okay to say ‘this isn’t for me’ or ‘I’m not happy here’ and leave… you don’t have to wait for things to be really bad

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Ilya Kaminsky, ‘While the Child Sleeps Sonya Undresses’, Deaf Republic

[Text ID: “Soaping together is sacred to us. Washing each other’s shoulders. You can fuck anyone–but with whom can you sit in water?”]

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Ilya Kaminsky, “A City Like a Guillotine Shivers on Its Way to the Neck”, Deaf Republic

[Text ID: “At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?”]

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from The Agony of Intimacy by Jeanette Winterson, published in Granta

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─ Hisham Siddiqi

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— natalie wee, never been kissed (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

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i have to tell you by Dorothea Grossman

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Hundreds of Fantastic Creatures Inhabit a Sprawling Universe by Vorja Sánchez

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Indian Mantis (Creobroter pictipennis), a species native to Asia

📸: @cider_mantodea

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Polynesia, The Sky by Henri Matisse

(via @lonequixote)