“I want to tear up the earth until I find you,”
— Miguel Hernández, from Selected Poems; “Elegy,” wr. c. January 1936
“I want to tear up the earth until I find you,”
— Miguel Hernández, from Selected Poems; “Elegy,” wr. c. January 1936
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“this dark is cold, and I distinctly remember back there, still pulsing, the place where I left my sun.”
— Benjamin S. Grossberg, from “The Space Traveler Talks Frankly About Desire,” CTNOW (20 September 2018)
“And when the sadness that I hate comes to knock on your door, tell her that I am waiting for you”
— Pablo Neruda, from “Letter on the Road,” The Captain’s Verses (New Directions, 2009)
Sometimes, when I see
you in a crowd, and I pretend
not to, I remember the way you
looked the last night I saw you
and you said in another life
we would be happy. And I said
in another life we would be
free from one another’s ghosts.
— Chloe N. Clark,. from “The Double Dark Theory of Our Universe,” published in Pidgeonholes
“—I sent my grief away. I cannot care / forever.”
— John Berryman, from The Dream Songs: Poems
