― Hiromi Kawakami, The Briefcase

I want it back = I drag its dead weight forward 

Seaglass Picnic, Frances Driscoll

Jennifer Chang, "The World", Some Say the Lark

Richard Siken

The Pink Box, Yesenia Montilla

“Shame thrives in silence, and wants more of it. The language of shame is silence. I wanted to incorporate silence, and silencing, into a poem, and was able to approximate that by blacking out language. What is unsaid becomes a visible absence—the hole I was writing around.”

— Leila Chatti, from an interview with Sneha Subramanian Kanta in Parentheses Journal, Issue 10 (via skgroutpoetry)

I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times, Taylor Byas

Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus

H A P P Y T R I G G E R, Milk and Filth, Carmen Giménez