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"She would come up from behind and put her arm around my neck and press me against her body to give me this hug, this hug, like the world disintegrated and all that was left was us two floating in space between dust and stars."

<3 Shome Dasgupta, i am here And You Are Gone

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“Levin took this occasion to convey his thought that the main thing in marriage was love, and that with love one was always happy, because happiness exists only in oneself.”

<3 Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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“The tragedy of old age is not that one is old but that one is young.”

<3 Annie Dillard, The Maytrees

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@JDNyle Into the Land of the Unicorns by Bruce Coville ❤️🦄

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@WordPerv So sorry for your loss, Courtney <3 thanks for sharing your beautiful poem, photos and the journey of his final days.

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“The plan was to keep moving up. She was a cheap date and so was I. Maybe next we’d burn down a hotel. After that we’d get a mansion. After that we’d torch a skyscraper. Who knew, maybe we’d set fire to each and every wonder of the world.”

<3 Bud Smith, Violets

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“I liked having extra ladies just as much as my father did. They were nice to him and they were even nicer to me. He would buy me a hot dog, which my mother forbade, and I would forget all about her as I ate it.”

<3 Yalitza Ferreras, You Must Be This Tall

@yalitzawrites

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@Caleb_of_1988 @carvezine Thank YOU, Caleb! I enjoyed your short story so much I read it two times in a row & wished it wouldn’t end! Really stunning. The interview was so insightful as well <3

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“His smell is on them. Years ago I loved that smell, used to crumple his clothes to my nose when he was away. But time melts the view of people you love, like leaving a painting out in the rain.”

<3 Caleb Tankersley, Swamp Creatures

@carvezine @Caleb_of_1988

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@bethgordonpoet So sorry for your loss, Beth <3 @JennyMitchellGo wrote a beautiful poem about mourning

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@NeptunesGHouse @YouTube Brilliant! Thanks for sharing <3 sadly missed the live & thrilled to be able to still enjoy—looking forward to the next one on the 18th! 🧜🏻‍♂️

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@zakbos “Nothing as profound as an urgent straight white male perspective on the issues of the day, nothing as important as those correctives the world seems hardly to know it begs for.”

<3 Zachary Bos

Love this, Zac—I can’t wait to enjoy them all!

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@kenyonreview "even my life wandering among the clouds/and bluffs as I run up/the stairs to the loft, to the roof,/to the attic porthole . . . will there be,I ask you, a precise hooking/point or platform/from where to take off/to stay with you?"

<3 Stefano Simoncelli

these 2 swept me away <3

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@JennyMitchellGo @lensflairfilms @TheMrLandon @chrys_salt @Louise_LWC @AmBusyPoeming @colin_bancroft @em_filtness You really have so many gems, Jenny! 💎 Here’s another favorite <3

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@JoseHernandezDz @TxReviewPress Gracias a ti! I so enjoyed this prose poetry collection & wanted to close #TheSealeyChallenge with a bang! 🔥

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“He was building a civilization on the moon. The nation was going to be called The United States of the Moon. His chair was still rocking as he slept.”

<3 Jose Hernandez Diaz, The Fire Eater

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“El exiliado deplora las patrias. Rehúye escisiones. Se / encamina hacia el instante. // Comienza a ver. Cuanto lo rodea recobra su fuerza. / Las cosas se avivan de día en día.”

<3 Rafael Cadenas, Antología poética

#TheSealeyChallenge

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“I handed over a paper bag, stuffed/full of you. My naked/hands shook when I lifted the coffee/to my lips. You pretended/not to notice — you’d perfected/not-noticing. For once I appreciated it.”

<3 Courtney LeBlanc, Beautiful & Full of Monsters

#TheSealeyChallenge @WordPerv

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“Undocumented is our status, resistance / is our cause. Because we cannot sleep / we dream with open eyes.”

<3 Bejamin Garcia, Thrown in the Throat

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“The art of losing isn’t hard to master; / so many things seem filled with the intent / to be lost that their loss is no disaster.”

<3 Elizabeth Bishop, Poems

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