the window of the soul

[reader-twisted]

“It was an act of self-preservation — however misguided it was”.

[literaryvein]

L. V., excerpts from a past life

[feral-ballad]

Carrie Fountain, from Burn Lake; “Burn Lake 4”

[mismedleym]

there is gold in the sky

[charitydingle]

Kedi 2016, dir. Ceyda Torun

[petaltexturedskies]

All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person's (or thing's) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

Susan Sontag, On Photography (originally published in 1977)

[havingapoemwithyou]

Affirmation to youth living in prison after Assata Shakur

by Eve L. Ewing

[kaos-teorema]

anatomie de l'enfer (catherine breillat, 2004)

[firstfullmoon]

Leila Chatti, from “The Moment When A Feeling Enters,” in Wildness Before Something Sublime

[text ID: I go on living. Deathtouched, changed, but my life arrives again / at yet. It’s May. I wake to it, thick and sweet as honey I’d forgotten.]

[apocryphics]

[eyeoflulu]

You wouldn’t have lived without leaving your harbor of safety to seize the danger of the wide world, Seize the day!!

[weltenwellen]

Gentlest of Bleeding Things  Ali Choudhary

[weltenwellen]

Wildness Before Something Sublime Leila Chatti