Imagine Being Loved By Me

"I'd be the dreadful need in the devotee that made him turn around. And I'd be the immediate forgiveness in Eurydice"

[dark-night-of-the-clownfish-dea]

“Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.”

— Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

[nemfrog]

Says noted psychologist. 1939.

source

[serratedpens]

Dave Bayley, “Cocoa Hooves”

[draculasswife-deactivated202212]

Artwork by Roberto Ferri.

[lifeinpoetry]

“I vow / a ravenous undoing. / I vow to love the fire always”

— — Tamiko Beyer, from “I Vow To Be the Small Flame,” Last Days

[mashamorevna]

“We’d exchanged horrors like wedding vows. Love and a shared nature could make any ugliness beautiful.”

— Glen Duncan, Talulla Rising

[escapekit]

Red Lights : Vatican France-based photographer Aishy shares shots of The Basilica di San Pietro, in the heart of the Vatican, under a new glance, a new light. Wow.

[ohevoyev]

mark twain, eve’s diary (1906)

[lifeinpoetry]

You kissed me hard and I let my mouth slip away when I felt your growing desperation and what is that supposed to mean except I want love that destroys me fully not partially and I want to destroy you more.

— Kanika Lawton, from “Hot Mess,” published in Vagabond City

[dykenstein-deactivated20210514]

“You want me to tell of the pain that is hidden in pleasure, the fang that’s concealed by the lip, that kiss that draws a blossom of blood, the joys that wrench the heart Godwards— paltry is the passion that never makes us shudder. True love partakes of terror.”

— Dante, Paradiso, trans. Jacob Rabinowitz

[headshot]

[salem-child]

Caravaggio - The Isaac’s sacrifice (details), 1598.

[holyisthenameofmyruthlessaxe]

“I needed God to abandon me so I could feel his presence. I need to kill someone inside me.”

— The Complete Stories, ‘The Departure of the Train (”A partida do trem”)’ by Clarice Lispector tr. Katrina Dodson

[draculasswife-deactivated202212]

Dies Irae (Detail) by Roberto Ferri.

[ololygas]

[cor-ardens-archive]

1. Camille Felix Bellanger, Abel 2. François-Xavier Fabre, La mort d'Abel 3. Santiago Rebull, The Death of Abel

[finita--la--commedia]

“Anything you love too violently always ends up killing you.”

— Guy de Maupassant, from “Night: A Nightmare” (1887)