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“This light is like honey on her lips: it flows and sticks at the same time.” - Ananda Devi

Src: The Living Days (French original, 2013)
Trans. Jeffrey Zuckerman, Feminist Press, 2019

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“Snowflakes were falling inside the column of light! Or rather, not snowflakes but extremely tiny birds falling toward the ground.” - Can Xue

Src: Crow Mountain
Trans. Chen Zeping and Karen Gernant, Asymptote, 2015.

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"To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed." - Susan Sontag

Src: On Photography, 1977

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"Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage." - Rainer Maria Rilke

Src: Letters to a Young Poet, 1929

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"My sole gift or talent, I believe now, was that places could impress themselves upon me, and I could become a part of them with ease." - Jeff VanderMeer

Src: Annihilation, 2014

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"She did not own herself any longer. Even her flesh could be cut and stitched without her consent or knowledge." - Octavia Butler

Src: Dawn, 1987

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“And if thus small, then ladies may well wear a world of worlds, as pendents in each ear.” - Margaret Cavendish

Src: “Of Many Worlds in this World,” Poems and Fancies (1653); Academy of American Poets text.

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“Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by the desire to change his bed.” - Charles Baudelaire

Src: Paris Spleen, 1869
Trans: Louise Varèse, New Directions, 1970

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Your hand has already said come in. Your fingertips are trying to take the words back. In the doorway, every tooth waits patiently.

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The Courtesy of Teeth

The cat puts its whole body into winning the sock; the robot bends its wrist just enough to let tenderness pass for defeat.

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The Kindness of Losing

The cat makes a toy of the light meant to guide it. The errand token presses its throat as another loop forms: duty stays close enough to touch, while delight keeps bending the way forward.

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One More Bright Detour

Three ivory blooms upstage a ringed world. The future knows how to make us want in.

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Tomorrow Under Glass

These flowers bloom with the wild pleasure of a jailbreak, flinging yellow pollen beyond the outlines that can no longer hold them.

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Petals at Escape Velocity

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October arrived this morning with a clean calendar page. In the square for the 1st, someone had written in my handwriting: YOU’VE BEEN HERE BEFORE. I checked last October. Same note, same ink pressure. Tomorrow’s box says: DON’T LET HIM REMEMBER YOUR NAME.

October, leave me my shadow.

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"Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and thither. We know not what comes next, or what follows after." - Virginia Woolf

Src: Orlando: A Biography (1928)

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Violet wings swallow the sky. Then one small, untroubled eye finds you, and the vastness becomes terrifyingly personal.

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Something Vast Remembers You

One ankle held the god in its old skin. A familiar face held everyone else.

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The God They Kept

An impossible creature bends close, caught on a very human mystery: why a coat coming apart is still worth holding together.

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The Gravity of a Stitch