a girl is a lion

for a lion is a lion and a man is a man and, though lions are far more beautiful by far than we are, yet they belong to a different order of beauty and, besides, they have no respect for us: why should they? bree / twenty-one

[mournfulroses]

George Seferis, tr. by Edmund Keeley, from Collected Poems; “Epitaph,”

[lacetulle]

Blumarine | Spring/Summer 2021

[sweetestsecrets]

“People pray to each other. The way I say ‘you’ to someone else, respectfully, intimately, desperately. The way someone says ‘you’ to me, hopefully, expectantly, intensely …”

— Huub Oosterhuis, epigraph to “Sanctuary” by Jean Valentine, Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems 1965-2003 (Wesleyan University Press, 2004)                                             (via memoryslandscape)

[r-siken-deactivated20210531]

self-portrait against red wallpaper, richard siken

[paper-fairy]

“Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars.”

— Victor Hugo, Ninety-Three 

[liquidlightandrunningtrees]

“And then we kissed like people starved. Clumsy, unfamiliar, young.”

— Marya Hornbacher, The Center of Winter

[byaseashore]

[heartshop]

Leonard Cohen, from Selected Poems

[bluebeardsbride-archive]

“When I’d first loved him, I wanted to take him apart, as a child dismembers a clockwork toy, to comprehend the inscrutable mechanics of its interior. I wanted to see him far more naked than he was with his clothes off.”

— Angela Carter, from “Flesh and the Mirror,” Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories

[earlyware]

[lady-vogue-deactivated20230306]

[videndaa]

“She had not known before that she wanted all these things, that she preferred dark hair and a slightly cruel expression, that she wished for tallness, or that a man kneeling might thrill her.”

— Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless (via liquidlightandrunningtrees)

[xshayarsha]

“The word ‘remember’ touches my hand, but I shake it off”

— Charles Wright, from Words and the Diminution of All Things.

[stargazerinaboat]

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“Girl woman with a war in her.”

— Lidia Yuknavitch, from “The Chronology of Water: A Memoir,” wr. c. 2011

[arterialtrees]

Anne Carson, Nox

[lovefulls]

Metamorphoses — Mary Zimmerman