Chris Abani, From "Terminus", 3 Poems Pub. Air Light Magazine [transcript In ALT]

I love him in the way you love a lighthouse

From a distance

Not expecting warmth

But grateful for the shape of his light

I wrote him into my days

The echo of a soul lesson coming back around

I will meet him in the Center of a life

I already started to build without him

Margarita Aliger on Anna Akhmatova, from a diary entry featured in Anna of All the Russias: A Life of Anna Akhmatova

Anaïs Nin, in a diary entry dated 27 February 1929, featured in The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin: Vol. IV, 1927-1931

Mourid Barghouti, " It's Also Fine"

– Audrey Hepburn

‘Ghost in the Shell’ 1995, recreated in haunting still life

the trial 1962