Alissa

Alissa. 34. New England. Watercolor Painter. Aspiring Cartoonist. Creator & Animator for Alissa's Couch

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Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

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Golden Touch by Clayshaper

— inspired by Hugues Merle’s Mary Magdalene in the Cave (1868)

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𝑰𝒕'𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔. 𝑰𝒕'𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔.

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Yannis Ritsos, trans. by Kimon Friar, from a poem featured in "Erotica: Love Poems,"

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[Image shows a poem with a space down the middle. The poem can be read in full, or either side can be read separately. The left side is titled, "lady macbeth", and the right side is titled, "macbeth".

Together they read,

i love you you have transformed me with strange tenderness and i am the monster that startles me in the mirror. and i have come full circle. i cannot allow this. this is me, myself as I was destined to be from my birth. so soft it hurts.

The lady macbeth side reads,

i love you with strange tenderness that startles me and i cannot allow myself to be so soft

The macbeth side reads,

you have transformed me and i am the monster in the mirror. i have come full circle. this. this is me, as I was destined from my birth. it hurts.

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[mournfulroses]

Else Fitzgerald, from "Everything Feels Like the End of The World," publ. in 2022

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Jeanette Winterson, from "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal," publ. in 2011

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Joanna Glenn, from her novel titled "All My Mothers," originally published in 2021

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Gregory Orr, from Orpheus & Eurydice: A Lyric Sequence, originally published in 2001

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Skeletal sci-fi art by Takuro Kamiya, Bruce Pennington, Alberto Pujolar, and Angus McKie.

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there you are.