jack gilbert, “islands and figs” / richard siken, “the worm king’s lullaby”
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Portrait of Fryderyk in Shifting Light, Richard Siken
[text ID: How much can you change / and get away with it, / before you turn into / something else, / before it's some kind of / murder?]
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richard siken, the language of birds / rae armantrout, prayers
[Text ID: The fear: that nothing survives. The greater fear : that something does.
The fear / that all this will end. / The Fear / that it won't. /End ID]
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they should invent a version of the story where no one has to leave first
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Violet Piper Twenty-Four, Candidly (via @voicedwords) // Richard Siken in an interview with Green Linden Press
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the struggle to love
R.F Kuang, The Dragon Republic (deleted scene) | Sleeping at Last, “Neptune” | Richard Siken, War of the Foxes | Clarice Lispector, The Stream of Life | Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath | Franz Kafka, Diaries (1910-1923) | Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? | Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow | Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red | Richard Siken, “Wishbone”
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— Richard Siken, from ‘Birds Hover the Trampled Field’ in War of the Foxes
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la nube roja - david de las heras
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— Birds Hover The Trampled Field, Richard Siken
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