Meditations in an Emergency by Cameron Awkward-Rich
“There’s a dream I have in which I love the world. I run from end to end like fingers through her hair. There are no borders, only wind.” — Cameron Awkward-Rich
He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? by A.E. Housman
“I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder, / And went with half my life about my ways.” – A.E. Housman
Oh, When I Was In Love With You by A.E. Housman
"And now the fancy passes by, / And nothing will remain," – A.E. Housman
A Heart That’s Been Broken by Maureen Owen
"it just / swings open & shut / like a gate." – Maureen Owen
One Is One by Marie Ponsot
"Think! Reform! Make us one. Join the rest of us, / and joy may come, and make its test of us." — Marie Ponsot
Breaking Up by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"I won’t say “forgive me” because I have left you; / I ask pardon for one thing: I loved you before." — Yevgeny Yevtushenko
A Fairly Sad Tale by Dorothy Parker
"Though she's a fool who seeks to capture / The twenty-first fine, careless rapture" — Dorothy Parker
Remember by Kate Light
"no, no, remember how lost / you felt and how often, and how high the cost, / and how close Love sat next to Lone." — Kate Light
Feeling Fucked Up by Etheridge Knight
“all i want now is my woman back / so my soul can sing.” — Etheridge Knight
I Gave My Heart To A Woman by William Ernest Henley
"She trampled it where it fell, / She broke it all to pieces," – William Ernest Henley