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August Themes
1. I was my own thief, the words came out of nowhere and caught me.
2. You abandon the universe in which you are still alive.
3. The house kept its own time.
4. Oh, my fingers would like to cut down the stars.
5. I beg to be let out of my mouth.
6. And every wound you own is beautiful to me.
7. My body is a house, but yours is a home.
8. My endangered bones are sweet.
9. Does the sky get tired of its heart burning all day long?
10. I am still here now in the screaming light.
11. It is amazing how long a ruined thing will burn.
12. Let us throw everything we know into the ocean.
13. And so I am banned from considering myself alive.
14. This body is a runaway howl.
15. My want is the god of touch.
16. I want each rib in my body to hold the shadow of a lion.
17. As we gather the pieces of a broken thing.
18. Be hot and cold and think for yourself. That’s all I ask.
19. Teeth shining and ravenous.
20. It won’t take many; it will take just one.
21. The planet pulls our bodies through the year.
22. Our blood hears starlight in these stones.
23. In your mouth, rain and sugar.
24. I emptied myself into the idea of you.
25. I have held the bright storm of you hot in my hands.
26. Sometimes language is the animal, sometimes it’s the gun.
27. & what is a map but the delusion of safety?
28. Be the kind of witch they are always burning, but do not burn
29. I pledge my neck to every knife.
30. What will I dream of? Horses and the whispering rain and a song just beyond hearing.
31. To make a burning room of this mouth.
1. Herta Muller
2. Kenzaburo Oe
3. Haruki Murakami
4. Alfonsina Storni
5. Kristin Chang
6. James Diaz
7. Savannah Slone
8. Angel Nafis
9. Ruth Baumann
10. Dorothea Lasky
11. Paul Guest
12. Jane Wong
13. Monica McClure
14. Rachelle Toarmino
15. Jasmine Reid
16. Ruth Madievsky
17. Alicia Mountain
18. Alice Notley
19. Cassandra de Alba
20. Leah Umansky
21. Oliver de la Paz
22. Catherine Kyle
23. Nancy Huang
24. Tatiana Ryckman
25. Alicia Mountain
26. Taylor Johnson
27. Yesenia Montilla
28. Cassandra de Alba
29. Kristin Chang
30. Paul Guest
31. Safiya Sinclair
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