#a kind of drowning

Hieu Minh Nguyen, from This Way to The Sugar: Poems; “My First”

[Text ID: I won’t tell you how I survived the wreckage. / This story doesn’t leave the ocean floor.]

Then you want to scream in the silence, / and yet only weep softly inside,

Rainer Maria Rilke, from The Book of Images; “Girl’s Melancholy” (tr. Edward Snow)