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Fady Joudah, from A Palestinian Meditation in a Time of Annihilation

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Edna St. Vincent Millay, from a letter featured in The Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Suzanne Rivecca, Ugly Bitter and True

#my heart aches

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— Speaking Tree, Joy Harjo

[text ID: I carry a yearning I cannot bear alone in the dark—]

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someday i’ll love kabeer, fleurentcue

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fleurentcue, internet

#free gaza #free palestine #poetrty

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A Burst of Light, Audre Lorde

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Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety

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god as an adversary

Anne Sexton, "The Civil War" // Ethel Cain, "Half-Cocked" // S. Osborn, "Blasphemies at the 5th Street Station" // Vi Khi Nao, "Fish in Exile" // Florence + the Machine, "Girls Against God"

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Topaz Winters, from "Cherry Blossoms"

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In the next world, should I remember this one, I will praise it above everything.

I wished for death often but now that I am at its door I have changed my mind about the world. It should go on; it is beautiful, even as a dream, filled with water and seed, plants and animals, others like myself, ships and buildings and messages filling the air – a beauty, if ever I have seen one. In the next world, should I remember this one, I will praise it above everything. - David Ignatow, “Above Everything” from 𝘞𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘩 (New York City, NY: Little Brown & Co., 1981)

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i'm going to make a life i love even if it's not the one i expected or thought i wanted. and i am going to let myself be proud and grateful of what i do have. i am allowed to be proud of it without other people realizing the gravity of what i have accomplished in scale to my life and abilities. i do not need permission.

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emily wilson your MIND

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a pounding in my heart

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"Don’t separate from your dear ones...", Alexander Kochetkov (translated by metamorphesque)

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motaz saying in his video (x) that he can no longer share aerial footage of the destruction because Israel killed his friend who operated the drone camera—because they killed all of the journalists who had drones and stole their drones—is so utterly gut wrenching.

he's tired. he looks exhausted. but still he talks about rebuilding when the war ends, even if it will take years to recover from the devastation. what I'm trying to say is that we cannot lose hope for an end to this destruction