Ilya Kaminsky, From “A City Like A Guillotine Shivers On Its Way To The Neck”, Deaf Republic

Franz Kafka, from a letter to Milena Jesenka featured in "Letters to Milena,

Chelsea Dingman, Through a Small Ghost

Why are you in despair, O my soul?

And why have you become disturbed within me?

Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him,

The help of my countenance and my God.

Psalm‬ ‭42‬:‭11‬

Louise Glück, from “The Burning Heart”, Poems 1962 - 2012

Alejandra Pizarnik, tr. by Yvette Siegert, from “Psychopathology Ward”, Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972

Ilya Kaminsky, from "Alfonso Stands Answerable", Deaf Republic

Tezer Özlü, from her novel titled "Cold Nights of Childhood," published in 1980

— V, from “excerpt from a book i will never write” (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals

Guandalupe Nettel, from her novel titled "Stillborn," originally published in 2020