quotes & poetry

stain them. i don’t care.

[poetic-questions]

—Richard Siken, "Wishbone"

[weltenwellen]

Leila Chatti, from “I Went Out to Hear”

[ivynightshade]

fatima aamer bilal, excerpt from moony moonless sky’s ‘a dead leaf of a sick branch of a rotting tree’.

[text id: i am running out of metaphors / to hide this sickness in]

[asoftepiloguemylove]

Could I please request a webweave about complex feelings on being an only child?

unfortunately i couldn't find anything specifically related to being an only child but i am also an only child and i interpreted this as being really lonely so a lot of these are related to that. i hope this is what you were looking for <33

Amy Dunne / CJ Hauser The Crane Wife / Dante Émile After Cameron Awkward-Rich / Richard Siken Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out / pinterest / Sally Rooney Conversations With Friends

[metamorphesque]

"Beautiful Losers", Leonard Cohen

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Donte Collins

[cloudswamp]

the woman who could not live with her faulty heart, margaret atwood

[weltenwellen]

Rita Dove, from “Voiceover“

[weltenwellen]

Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, Rien ne va plus

[flowerytale]

Daphne du Maurier, from The Parasites

[mun-dane]

Félix Vallotton, Intimacies | Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Ann Davidow | Félix Vallotton, Intimacies

[mun-dane]

on love arriving unannounced

[mun-dane]

so overwhelmed by the love my little poem received, i wanna cry

[nope-nora]

the struggle to love

R.F Kuang, The Dragon Republic (deleted scene) | Sleeping at Last, “Neptune” | Richard Siken, War of the Foxes | Clarice Lispector, The Stream of Life | Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath | Franz Kafka, Diaries (1910-1923) | Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? | Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow | Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red | Richard Siken, “Wishbone”

[weltenwellen]

Leila Chatti, from "Postcard from Gone"

[weltenwellen]

Gavin Yuan Gao, from "Wild Nothing"

[weltenwellen]

Anthony Thomas Lombardi, from "self-portrait as murmuration"

[8thrabbit]

[hopelesspoeticnightmare-deactiv]

Often father and daughter look down on mother (woman) together. They exchange meaningful glances when she misses a point. They agree that she is not bright as they are, cannot reason as they do. This collusion does not save the daughter from the mother’s fate.

~Bonnie Burstow, Radical Feminist Therapy: Working in the Context of Violence