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Night opens me and it’s you.

Alejandra Pizarnik; “I Check For You In The Wind”, The Galloping Hour: French Poems, (tr. by Patricio Ferrari and Forrest Gander).

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Caitlin Bailey, from Solve for Desire: Poems; “Incantare”

[Text ID: “Someone has replaced your heart / with raw meat. / That delicacy. I’m working on a trick / where I come across sated. / Where I don’t remember how to be ravenous.”]

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— Kim Visda, from “For Lack Of A Better Poem.”

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— Carol Rifka Brunt in Tell The Wolves I'm Home

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Still Falling, Jennifer Grotz

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Alice Walker, from “Even As I Hold You”, Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990

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Franny Choi, from “Waste”, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

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birthday song

lorde “ribs” / natalie wee “asami writes to korra for three years” / mikako ichikawa / silas denver melvin “twenty” / the backseat lovers “close your eyes”

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Do Not Bring Him Water, Caitlin Scarano

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Rookery, Traci Brimhall

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‘some girls are born with an insatiable hunger’ / lisa villemaire

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Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God [originally published 1905]

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Sick, Jody Chan

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Dance of the Satyrs and Nymphs by Max Pietschmann (Early 20th Century)

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From Shyla Jones’ chapbook, Big Girl with Buck Teeth, available at https://bottlecap.press/products/bgwbt

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failed to be more

emily skaja “elegy with sympathy” / bon iver “holocene” / michael carson “untitled” / kaveh akbar “i won't lie this plague of gratitude” / franny choi “look” / aj hamilton “don't shoot the messenger”

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Blythe Baird, from If My Body Could Speak; “Eat”

[Text ID: “I am trying to stop doing / things that don’t make any sense. Body, / forgive me. I am trying. I am trying. I am still trying.]