fragile ferality

an aesthetic sideblog.

[lifeinpoetry]

I feel like some third person locked outside the language through which I am the things I mean.

— Christopher Gilbert, from “The ‘The,’” Turning into Dwelling

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Emily Dickinson, from a letter to an unknown recipient wr. c. early 1862

[dutchster]

maybe the reason i can’t sleep is because there are enemies nearby

[softgrlfriend]

Intimacy (2020)

[softgrlfriend]

co-star said

[girlrose]

[stitchblades]

jenny holzer, SURVIVAL (1983-85)

[coyolia]

              S A C C H A R I N E     /     T A N G E R I N E     -     S O U R    !

[actutum]

[centronorth]

[allthebuttcakes]

[nitroxed]

[syrian-bitch]

“Oh yes, but lostness is loving someone too, knowing you would take the raft out further if it meant a few more minutes.”

— Jeff Latosik, from “On the General Being of Lostness,” Poetry: New Canadian Poets Issue (December 2017)

[melisica]

Deni Pesto

[n1ghtcr4w1er]

When you’re playing animal crossing and scare off an expensive bug before you see it

[weltenwellen]

Anais Nin, Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1939-1947

[velvetmysoul]