October Themes

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1. Laugh, child, you can drink moonlight if you wish to.
2. To the peace of deathless song.
3. Even unhappiness, in order to be pure, must be a little absurd.
4. I have a taste for the evening. I have indulgence for the dawn.
5. You were my death; I could hold you.
6. Something vacant settles in us.
7. cage your tongue / don’t swallow anything
8. Darkness honestly lived through is a place of wonder and life.
9. the darkness / is well suited / to devotion
10. These hours are as vast as stretches of sky.
11. You are my grasp and catch.
12. A little woman in search of revenge would knock down fate itself.
13. of delirious things and the senses
14. "Beauty / the healer, the teacher —
15. Your heart, fix it.
16. Only infinite desire
17. My head is full of vertigo and screams.
18. You were a vision in the morning when the light came through.
19. Our bodies remember.
20. Wall me in. Lie down on me.
21. The dark ate at you.
22. My mind would. Only my blood wouldn’t.
23. There is a hunger which is always new.
24. There is a forgetting of all existence.
25. Your dreams are a mess. / They are my masterpiece.
26. such a skin possible from the closeness
27. What darkness did you let into your flesh?
28. But all words are different without their masks.
29. Learn to predict a fire with unerring precision.
30. With all that we desire, all that we suffer.
31. You are alone by your own doing.


1. Miguel Hernández
2. William Carlos Williams
3. Edna St. Vincent Millay
4. Jacques Roubaud
5. Paul Celan
6. Roland Barthes
7. Rosario Ferre
8. Robert Lowell
9. Euripides
10. Marguerite Duras
11. Marina Tsvetaeva
12. Friedrich Nietzsche
13. Nicole Brossard
14. Louise Glück
15. Alice Notley
16. Franz Kafka
17. Marguerite Duras
18. Halsey
19. Jeanette Winterson
20. Derric Austin
21. Ted Hughes
22. Margaret Atwood
23. Herta Muller
24. Friedrich Hölderlin
25. Anne Carson
26. Nicole Brossard
27. Mary Szybist
28. Alice Notley
29. Czeslaw Milosz
30. Adrienne Rich
31. Louise Bourgeois