before targets are drawn

Poster of movie

🎟 No Other Choice
dir. Park Chan-Wook
2025

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Screenshot of poem

Sudden Light
Enda Wyley

Screenshot of poem

Tetelestai
Eugene O'Connell

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Winterfield
Ellen Bryan Voigt

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SoMa
Hieu Minh Nguyen

Roses, Late Summer by Mary Oliver

"If I had another life, I would want to spend it all on some unstinting happiness."

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Currently reading:
⛩️ Starting Point (H. Miyazaki)
🥿 My Brilliant Friend (E. Ferrante)
🏝 Rock Solid (M. Vitug)

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Cover of James Baldwin, The Devil Finds Work. Just the author leaning on a brick wall by the stairs, looking out.

Q2 2025
The Devil Finds Work
James Baldwin
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How Our Bodies Did This Unfamiliar Thing by Malika Booker

"My fingers would crush my pay slips, fold fresh notes, slip each between my breast, burying my independence in the folds of my body."

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Red book cover for The Sympathiser by VT Nguyen

Q1 2025
The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen
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Sleeping in the Forest, Mary Oliver

Sleeping in the Forest
Mary Oliver

Bowing to the Empress by Mary Oliver

"The world is that bright, your senses so sharply tuned by the notion of oblivion--those black wings beating at the light."

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Copy of poem From Sunset to Star Rise by Christina Rosetti

From Sunset to Star Rise
Christina Rosetti

No Ruined Stone by Shara Mccallum

"the farther you journey from them the more distance will maw in you"

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Wild Blessings by Lucille Clifton

“sometimes i hear a single music in us, one note dancing us through the singular moving world.”

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Some Questions You Might Ask by Mary Oliver

"One question leads to another."

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The Bleeding-heart by Mary Oliver

"Most things that are important, have you noticed, lack a certain neatness."

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Ode to Repetition by Ellen Bass

"You could despair in the fixed town of your own life."

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Universal Truths by Shira Haus
"He got mean around fourteen, then sad."

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Sacred Objects by Ada Limón

"I pretend my sunglasses hide my whole body."

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Brujitas by Emma Trelles

"But the past is a haunting and the best you can hope from a ghost is a sorrow that won’t kill you."

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The World Has Need of You by Ellen Bass

"What if you felt the invisible tug between you and everything?"

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blessing the boats by Lucille Clifton

"may you kiss
the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back"

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“Reading Neruda’s “Ode to the Onion” by Ellen Bass

“The masters eat everything right up to their death.
And then they grab that, too, in their failing fist.”

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The Roses by Mary Oliver.
From @readalittlepoem.bsky.social
"there is no end, believe me! the inventions of summer, to the happiness your body is willing to bear."

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An excerpt from Claudia Rankin's Citizen: An American Lyric.
"The world is wrong."

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Mirror by Sylvia Plath
"I am important to her."

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