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Warsan Shire, from “Backwards”, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

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Victoria Chang, from "Untitled #5, 1998", With My Back to the World

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Perhaps the World Ends Here, Joy Harjo

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flowery tea ♡

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-Anaïs Nin, 1939

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Tree bark details from April forest walks 🐛

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Virginia Woolf, The Waves originally published: 1931

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Emily Dickinson, from her poem titled "1188," featured in The Emergency Poet

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Joy Sullivan, from Instructions for Traveling West: Poems; “Instructions for Traveling West”

[Text ID: “you’re homesick / for all the lives / you’re not living.”]

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also a poem from the new, unreleased collection. very possibly my own all-time favourite.

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BE STRONG, BE BRAVE

Poem “Problem Area” (2016), in Last Sext, by Melissa Broder; // Unknown; // “The Waves” (1931), by Virgina Woolf; // “Notebooks” (2017), by Tennessee Williams; // “Fast Car” (1988), by Tracy Chapman; // “The American Crisis” (1776), by Thomas Paine; // Quote by @maplepecanpastry /// Stills from “Joan of Arc” (1948), by Victor Fleming, starring Ingrid Bergman

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Joy Sullivan, from “At the Airport”, Instructions for Traveling West

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Alphonse Mucha