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I am the utterance of my name

[weltenwellen]

Nicole W. Lee, from "Even the Dust"

[heavensghost]

So much time has gone by, I didn’t know how much I would change

[zegalba]

French Wedding dress (1869)

[metamorphesque]

— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra

[swordwithribbon]

the storm

i. the eye of the storm

a lustful, devilish beast

he is only the size of an eye

that coils around thread

on a needle

he follows me, torturously

sometimes i think this storm will never end

the way i roam this barren hell-scape

the clouds writhe and torment me

they poke and prod and pinch me

against all of my desperation and plea

and the sky is darkening

she is oh so black

and i am ready to be devoured

are you hungry?

or will you wait a little longer

and i look up to the sky

where the raven watches me

from through the branches

of lucifer’s black tree

[english-idylls]

Detail of Saint Catherine of Alexandria by Caravaggio (1598-99). 

[borifanni]

“A hiss of gold Blooming out of blackness,”

— Amy Lowell, from Free Fantasia On Japanese Themes in “The Complete Poetical Works Of Amy Lowell” (via adrasteiax)

[ringoarchive]

Sheena Ringo for Ongaku to Hito (音楽と人) magazine, February, 2000.

[catilinas]

Franny Choi, Soft Science

[fine-arts-gallery]

Death and the Maiden (c. 1908) by Marianne Stokes.

[lottystudies]

[red-ibis-red]

"I shall be waiting for you. You know that when you come home, weary, with blood on your hands, I shall be waiting there among the birches. You will rest your head in my lap, and I shall kiss your burning forehead and wash the blood from you. I shall be waiting, and I shall love you."

—Pär Lagerkvist, The Eternal Smile: Three Stories

[weltenwellen]

Sandra Cisneros, from "Tea Dance, Provincetown, 1982", Woman Without Shame

[weltenwellen]

Sandra Cisneros, from "Tea Dance, Provincetown, 1982", Woman Without Shame

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[soracities]

In the beginning, there was your mouth, / a sky full of stars,

Donika Kelly, from "In the Beginning"

[victormalonso]

shore of my life | víctor m. alonso

[dollwithkaleidoscopeeyes]

Utterly obsessed with these Shakespeare playbook covers from the late 1960s by Paul Hogarth