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𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘣𝘢𝘣𝘺 𝘤𝘳𝘺 • 𝘏𝘛𝘟

[metamorphesque]

— Sylvia Plath, "The Bell Jar"

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

The heart, it hoards— how I know this—

— Kevin Young, from “The Stair,” Poetry (vol. 222, no. 4, July / August 2023)

[weltenwellen]

Jennifer Chang, from "Dialogues (Against Literature)"

[inanotherunivrse]

in another universe I’m easier to love

[llovelymoonn]

beds in paintings

igor moritz \ paul fenniak \ magi puig catalan in bed \ philip geiger every door (2018) \ maria luque \ carmen pinart \ david hettinger a break in their day \ félix vallotton laid down woman, sleeping (1899) \ edouard vuillard woman in a bed 

[heavenhillgirl]

Paris, Texas (1984), dir. Wim Wenders

[typewriter-worries]

Red, White & Royal Blue, Casey McQuiston

[weltenwellen]

When someone loves loudly, with everything they have in them, the withholding of that loud love, even briefly, feels impossible to endure.

Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

[weltenwellen]

Ono no Komachi & Izumi Shikibu, tr. by Jane Hirshfield & Mariko Aratani, The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan

[weltenwellen]

I was once foolish enough to believe knowledge would clarify, but some things are so gauzed behind layers of syntax and semantics, behind days and hours, names forgotten, salvaged and shed, that simply knowing the wound exists does nothing to reveal it.

Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

[ryebreadgf]

[a-quiet-green-agreement]

"I don’t want to sound foolish. But, just remember, love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now."

– James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk

[weltenwellen]

Tarfia Faizullah, from "The Poem You’ve Been Waiting For"

[maderilien]

"Even if it is full of love, all a ghost can do is haunt."

or, the limitation of the medium | In stillness, terror. musings

[kafk-a]

Mary Britton Miller in Vivian Gornick’s The Odd Woman and the City

[amargedom]

“My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. Continue to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart.”

—

[hecallsmelovely]