from abell 2218 by eric gamalinda, published in amigo warfare: poems
[Text ID: I use my body to find love. I eat all the wrong foods. I believe what I see with my own two eyes. Fear eats me. I have to look for a job. I can sprint faster than sound. I burn forever, I have no end. /End ID]
“I used to dream of drinking tea with you at night, I mean, to be partners in happiness and in joy. Believe me, my dear, it warms my heart, even if you are far away. Not because I love you less, because I love you more.”— Mahmoud Darwish in a letter to Tamar Ben Ami
Euripides, tr. by Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
“I don’t mind being killed, but I don’t want them to touch me.”— excerpt from Antigone by Jean Anouilh (trans. Lewis Galantiere)