IMAGES AND WORDS

[tinyghosthands]

[firstfullmoon]

Everything that ever happened to me is just hanging—crushed and sparkling—in the air, waiting to happen to you. Everything that ever happened to me happened to somebody else first.

— Mary Ruefle, from “Saga,” in Trances of the Blast

[sirgawin]

A ghost. That’s what I am. 

The Devil’s Backbone (2001) dir. Guillermo del Toro

[charnel-grounds]

“Fair Rosamund”

unidentified English pre-Raphaelite artist

oil on canvas, 19th century

[rebelculture]

[macydraws]

loons

[enchantedbook]

'The Wild Swans' illustrated by Elenore Plaisted Abbott, 1922

[moonandtrees]

[bestiolin]

the invitation

[derangedrhythms]

[...] my terrible and wonderful angel.

Benjamin Tammuz, from 'Minotaur', tr. Kim Parfitt & Mildred Budny

[asoftepiloguemylove]

BUT I WAS LITTLE TOO // ON THE FAILURE OF FATHERS

Michael Wasson This Dusk In A Mouth Full of Prayer // Ocean Vuong Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong // Aftersun (2022) dir. Charlotte Wells // Mitski A Burning Hill // Franz Kafka Letter to His Father // Disco Elysium (2019) cr. ZA/UM // Sharon Olds I Wanted to Be There When My Father Died // Daniel Lavery & Cecillia Corrigan FROM THE MAKERS OF "TWO-MOM ENERGY DRINK," IT'S "LET YOUR FATHER DIE" ENERGY DRINK // pinterest // pinterest // @inkskinned Red Blood, Black Ink // Arcade Fire Windowsill

[claudia-lioncourt]

Katherine Angel, Daddy Issues / Ocean Vuong, from "Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong," Night Sky With Exit Wounds / Francisco Goya, Saturn Devouring His Son, c. 1820 / Ethel Cain, "Family Tree (Intro)" / Sylvia Plath, from "Daddy," Ariel / James Baldwin, New York Times interview (1985) / Desireé Dallagiacomo, from "Origin Story," Sink / August Friedrich Schenck, The Orphan, memory of Auvergne, c. 1885 and Anguish, c. 1878 / Gallows Pole (Gallows Tree), folk song / Ethel Cain, "Family Tree (Intro)" and "Sun Bleached Flies" / Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

[a-god-in-ruins-rises]

[rotgospels]

Every family has a myth for the young to inherit – an undocumented fable passed between mouths, a grave illness to be contracted – as if the very words were a blight to infect the youth with and let them know they’re now welcome to the fold. After all, what exactly is a family, if not a brotherhood and sisterhood afflicted with the same terminal disease?

Eric LaRocca, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke. 

[weltenwellen]

Athena Nassar, from "Love Is Not Always Song, but the Swelling"

[clairewolf]

diana khoi nguyen, “ghost of”

[erstwhilesparrow]

i miss poems. does anybody have poetry recommendations

[salemoleander]

BIG fan of all of Natalie Wee's work, esp Things to Watch Out For