ALTAudre Lorde, "From The House of Yemanjá", The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde [transcript in ALT]
Everyday Poetry - "Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself." Octavia E. Butler
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“What he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
“Be my mother, I said to the trees, in the language of trees, which can’t be transcribed, and they shook their hair back, and they bent low with their many arms, and they looked into my eyes as only trees can look into the eyes of a person, they touched me with the rain on their fingers till I was all droplets, till I was a mist, and they said they would.”
— Emily Berry, from “Canopy,” in Stranger, Baby
ALTTomas Tranströmer, from “Black Postcards″, The Deleted World: Poems (versions by Robin Robertson, bilingual ed.) [transcript in ALT]
