... there's the moment you wake or refuse to ever sleep again ...

 But to say, I know—is there any touch in it?


alexander tinei





“Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me.” 


Marcin Maciejowski




Kirsten Sims


Käthe Kollwitz 






xavier mellery

I wish something would put its hands on me,

give me stronger poison and then stronger.

 (...)

Nothing can be said for suffering.

It is legible only to strangers

and at great distances. It detests

survivors.

Kathleen Melian









To be there; to listen; not invade. Another solitude ...

I watch her face. The lines of will, kindness, hunger. Silence.

sam caldwell






Sonia Ruciak



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title - b.hicok
1. and 4. line - jean valentine
2. line - hegel
3. line - DONALD REVELL