
I am doing nothing with my exile
of a life.
I go to the supermarket Saturday
on walks in the wilderness
of America on Sunday…
The woman I want to be is implausible.
— Nazifa Islam from poem Stability is a Feeling
- You Have To Keep Breaking Your Heart Until It OpensYou have to keep breaking your heart until it opens. — Rumi
- Nothing’s Wrong, You’re Just In Love Againmy show would air the pleasures of compulsion, and be named Screw It, I’m Going to Text Her, or Nothing’s Wrong, You’re Just in Love Again… — Maggie Milner from poem In Couplets
- Trying To Love You Bankrupted MeJoshua Tree Inn Your heart wasa wishing well.Bottomless.Trying to love youbankrupted me. — John Mark Green
- I Evict You From My HeartI release you. I evict you from my heart. Because if I don’t do it now, I never will. — Jenny Han from It’s Not Summer Without You.
- I Am Trying To Buy YouI love you like the river loves its mud. No. It is because I am trying to buy you. I am trying to pull you into my heart. — Rebecca Lehman from poem Get Lost Serenade