depths

your much awaited return.

[metamorphesque]

—  Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath | Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

[feral-ballad]

Carrie Fountain, from Burn Lake; “Experience”

[typodescript]

[text: When I think of everything I've wanted I feel sick.]

[theoptia]

Albert Camus, from Notebooks 1951-1959; May 13th, 1959

[feral-ballad]

Jeanette Winterson, from Lighthousekeeping

[soracities]

Eavan Boland, “A Woman Painted on a Leaf”

[Text ID: “I want a poem I can grow old in. I want a poem I can die in.”]

[softwaring]

by tucker

[whispersobliviate]

Lili Marberg as Salome by Leopold Schmutzler(details)

[metamorphesque]

"I tried to ask my parents to leave the room, but not my life. It was very hard. Because the room was the size of my life. Because my life was small."

— Chen Chen, “Chapter VIII”

[metamorphesque]

—Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

[text ID: I am alone in my room, between two worlds.]

[metamorphesque]

― Elena Ferrante, The Story of the Lost Child

[text ID: To write, you have to want something to survive you.]

[metamorphesque]

― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

[text ID: I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.]

[metamorphesque]

musings on april

Sylvia Plath (Leon Dabo), Edna St. Vincent Millay, E. E. Cummings, Naguib Mahfouz (Edgar Degas), E. E. Cummings (Édouard Manet), Rabindranath Tagore, T. S. Eliot (Edgar Degas), F. Scott Fitzgerald (Alphonse Osbert)

[theoptia]

Pier Paolo Pasolini, from “Prayer to My Mother”

Text ID: I’m here, alone, with you, in a future April...

[metamorphesque]

haiku #15, tathev simonyan

[weltenwellen]

Natalie Díaz, from “From the Desire Field”, Postcolonial Love Poem

[shisasan]

Upper Hell as perceived by Dante’s Inferno

[feral-ballad]

Gabriela Mistral, tr. by Velma García-Gorena, from Gabriela Mistral’s Letters to Doris Dana; “December 28, 1949”

[Text ID: “I hope for love, because I give it.”]