Ayesha (Seokjin's Version) ☾

“Stories are critical, Kirabo. The minute we fall silent, someone will fill the silence for us.”
― Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, A Girl Is a Body of Water

“This night is a cold, deep lake, and I am lying on its bottom, surprised to be able to breathe. The bellied sail of the moon has been wafted out of sight, but thousands of starlights sparkle up there on the surface, just bright enough that I can hold up the fish of my fingers and watch them dart this way and that, hungrily feeding on the darkness. Who could be happier to be alive than I? - Ted Kooser, from “April,” The Wheeling Year: A Poet’s Field Book (University of Nebraska Press, 2014)”
― Ted Kooser, The Wheeling Year: A Poet's Field Book

“They say nothing lasts forever but they're just scared it will last longer than they can love it.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Grass so sharp it cuts our shins, I loved you most
when there was some semblance of the real—
pain, beads of blood—that made me look
outside the dream, at the globe of the sky
already deteriorating. The facts
I don’t remember. Only how it felt to remember
the moments I was pulled out.

—Jacques J. Rancourt, from “Sedge,” Novena (Pleiades Press, 2017)”
― Jacques J. Rancourt, Novena