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“The way grief needs oxygen. The way every once in a while, it catches the light and starts smoking. The way my grief will die with me. The way it will cleave and grow like antlers.”

— Victoria Chang, from Obit

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Ugh, this is boring. I’m bored. You wanna… stomp it out?

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“I swear I prayed to feel only good / desires, but the “I” in every new poem is Judas or Eve.”

— Traci Brimhall, from “You Said the Lambs Were Ready,” Come the Slumberless To the Land of Nod

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What drew you to me?

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“i found god in myself / & i loved her/ i loved her fiercely”

— Ntozake Shange, from For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf

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I was tired of surviving. My heart had outgrown me. It wanted too much love,

too much sadness, too many arrows and glasses of wine.

— Traci Brimhall, from “Dear Thanatos,” Come the Slumberless To the Land of Nod

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Just let me hate you!

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i’m a grown ass woman, alright? 

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Annihilation (2018) Directed by Alex Garland

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I was tired of surviving. My heart had outgrown me. It wanted too much love,

too much sadness, too many arrows and glasses of wine.

— Traci Brimhall, from “Dear Thanatos,” Come the Slumberless To the Land of Nod

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“I want to see God’s face, to lick the white of his eye, to order / him to die for me again.”

— Traci Brimhall, from “Crime and Punishment,” Come the Slumberless To the Land of Nod