The Murder Mile

"I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute." -Nabokov [email protected] turqnayuniverse.tumblr.com aerialcircus.wordpress.com http://flavors.me/cait

[lifeinpoetry]

i am god’s mouse 

i am sure of it 

who else would ask me to swim until 

i drown for an escape that may or may 

not exist

— Willy Palomo, from “Aaron Writes, Serotonin as a Lobotomized Mouse,” published in Grimoire

[nobrashfestivity]

Agnes Giberne 1898

[nebulosa]

[metaphorformetaphor]

The promise was a strong tie, hard, but I knew where I stood. If it’s gone, I don’t know where I am. When there’s a strange scent in the spring twilight, I know least of all

Tarjei Vesaas, from The Ice Palace (Owen Publishers, 2002; first published 1963)

[louderish]

“I feel occasionally my skull will crack, fatigue is continuous - I only go from less exhausted to more exhausted & back again.”

— Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath (via adrasteiax)

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waiting for god, wong may

[098766799]

Anne Boyer, what resembles the grave but isn’t

[theotreptos]

Simone Weil, “The Love of God and Affliction,” Waiting for God

[hheininge-art]

[salemwitchtrials-deactivated202]

Excerpt from The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton

[redlipstickresurrected]

Todd Hido (American, b. 1968, Kent, OH, USA, based San Francisco, CA, USA)  Photography

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Clarice Lispector, from “The Stream of Life,” originally published c. 1973

[fuckyeahexistentialism]

“One must be sincere. Sincere at any price, even to our own detriment.”

— Albert Camus, from Youthful Writings; “Contradictions,” wr. c. 1932 (via violentwavesofemotion)

[legesteoublie]

Hélène Cixous, Coming to Writing

[foxpapa]

Una lepre variabile, o bianca, in una notte nevosa, Norvegia

Fotografia di Erlend Haarberg, Nat Geo Image Collection

[torettalynn-deactivated20200425]

From Vintage Photo Booth Eduardo Boubat, Times Square 1953

[airwalker]

Rabindranath Tagore