I am no bird.

[elysiumaze]

Farewell, now you will no longer be you, nor I, I. As if to say, This ebbing night will rise now in such a day that will be new.

Geetanjali Shree in, Tomb of Sand.

[timorousghost]

“[…] peut-être parce que, sans m'en rendre compte, j'étais déjà en train de devenir quelqu'un d'autre.”

— Le Bleu des abeilles, Laura Alcoba, 2013

[weltenwellen]

Cathy Park Hong, from "Spring and All"

[weltenwellen]

Jennifer Chang, from "Dialogues (Against Literature)"

[weltenwellen]

Maggie Nelson, Bluets

[lillylonya]

outdated memes that apply to me and only me <3

[latibule-e-deactivated20231012]

— Louise Glück, from “Averno.”

[lifeinpoetry]

but you see, i was seventeen and alone and nobody gave me anything except one book by dickinson and she was so neat, so precise, so human and i wasn’t. i just wasn’t.

— Megan Fernandes, from “Conversion,” Good Boys

[dogrotpdf]

me. me when a poem says something ive felt before

[weltenwellen]

[jareckiworld]

Agata Kus — Mother  (oil on canvas, 2012)

[tinyghosts]

“Green things followed by golden things followed by whiteness - abstractions from which comes intense pleasures, like the figs on the table.”

— Louise Glück, from her poem ‘Twilight’, from “A Village Life”, Carcanet Press, 2010 (via indeskidgepoetry)

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

“I am always here, stroking the wings of your soul.”

— Richard Jackson, from “Sonata of Love’s History,” The Heart as Framed: New and Selected Poems (Press 53, 2022)

[serratedpens]

Melissa Febos, Abandon Me

[hellomelancholic]

The grind NEVER starts. I am sleeping.

[killing-the-prophet]

Fish-farm cultivator Ioannis Ouzounoglou collects fish that died because of recent low temperatures, at his fish farm in Richo lagoon, in Igoumenitsa, Greece, on January 26, 2022. Giannis Floulis.

[xonference]

“It would have surprised neither of us to have found, slit open, that we shared organs, that one’s lungs breathed for the both, that a single heart beat a doubling, feverish pulse.”

— Daisy Johnson, Sisters (via rotgospels)