I die of dreams;

Hi! You can call me Blue, and I’m tired of all this fucking laundry. Blog Avatar: Joaquín Sorolla, "Boxing raisins, Javea," 1901, Blog Title: Delmira Agustini, from "Intimate" tr: Valerie Martínez

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Walter MacEwen - The Scribe's Office (1891)

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Georges Lemmen - Woman with cat (ca. 1900)

[lifeinpoetry]

Do you really not belong to me, dear body?

— Moshtari Hilal, from "Dying Prayer," Ugliness, tr. Elisabeth Lauffer

[derangedrhythms]

And how horribly easy it is to be hurt. I am being hurt all day, & hurt by the tiniest & most subtle things. So on goes the everyday armour, and the self, even the wounded self, is hidden from so many.

Dylan Thomas, The Love Letters of Dylan Thomas; Pamela Hansford Johnson, March 1934

[peoniepoetals]

“I go on loving you like water but / there is a terrible breath in the way all of this”

— John Ashbery, in “The Tennis Court Oath” from The Tennis Court Oath

[praziluk]

Grab somebody sexy tell them Help

[inkskinned]

me, regardless of what i’m doing: i’d rather die 

[weltenwellen]

In The Garden Christiana Castillo

[weltenwellen]

Victoria Chang, from “Night Sea, 1963”, With My Back to the World

[random-brushstrokes]

Otto Dix - The Pregnant Woman (1931)

[podcastwizard]

sorry boss can't come in today i was on my way to work and then a gentle spring breeze kissed my cheek and reminded me it is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in this broken world

[grundoonmgnx]

Yoo Mi Seon (South Korean, b. 1959, Inside, 2026

Silver leaf, colored metal leaf and stone powder on Korean paper, 80 × 80 cm

[paper-wounds]

Fortesa Latifi, from The Truth About Grief.

[oldpaintings]

Duck Heaven, c.1885 by Willem Maris (Dutch, 1844–1910) 

[huariqueje]

Nasturtium Spill - Lynne Millar , 2026.

American , b. 1978 -

Oil on panel , 24 x 24 in.

[huariqueje]

When Life Gives You Lemons, Paint Them - Melissa Franklin Sanchez , 2021.

British , b. 1984 -

Oil on aluminum , 30 x 40 in.

[lifeinpoetry]

The imperfect heart of love is not looking away—

— Brenda Hillman, from "Proud Energy," Loose Sugar