Hesper

“Done with the whole dark
& the insect dirge
under blue lit lamps.
Done trying to remember

June, first stars & August
when I was Penelope
when I was Eurydice
when July was missing

& I was my own dull shade.”
― Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems

“To love another man is to leave no one behind to forgive me.”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

“I’m starting to understand that the longer you get away with something, the more reckless you become, until it’s almost as if you want to get caught.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“My hunger, too, has both hard and soft parts.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science