[derangedrhythms]

I have still not deciphered the mystery of the hare. She retains the elusive, indefinable core that explains, perhaps, why we humans have projected so many of our fears and desires onto the species, investing hares with supernatural powers from the most evil to the most inviting, confirming our tendency to either worship or demonise those things we struggle to understand.

Chloe Dalton, Raising Hare

[quotespile]

“Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people’s company. But she did not know that loneliness can be an unnoticed cramping of the spirit for lack of companionship.”

— Doris Lessing, The Grass Is Singing

[weltenwellen]

I Remember The Carrots Ada Limón

[weltenwellen]

Tony Hoagland, from “Entangle”, Priest Turned Therapist Treats Fear of God: Poems

[metamorphesque]

“I want to love more than death can harm. And I want to tell you this often: That despite being so human and so terrified, here, standing on this unfinished staircase to nowhere and everywhere, surrounded by the cold and starless night — we can live. And we will.”

Ocean Vuong, A Life Worthy of Our Breath

On Being with Krista Tippett

[sontagspdf]

James Baldwin in conversation with Nikki Giovanni

[quotespile]

“You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it’s time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives.”

— José Saramago, Blindness

[derangedrhythms]

The carrion birds sat about the topmost corners of the houses with their wings outstretched in attitudes of exhortation like dark little bishops.

Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West

[thirdity]

“It begins with fear, passion begins with a fear. Fear is the trembling of faith. One cannot have faith without being afraid. One cannot *have* faith, no human being. Being human is that: to have faith that’s been fractured then stuck back together.”

— Hélène Cixous, Love Itself: In the Letter Box

[finita--la--commedia]

“Time is not a straight line, it’s more of a labyrinth, and if you press close to the wall at the right place you can hear the hurrying steps and the voices, you can hear yourself walking past on the other side.”

— Tomas Tranströmer (1931-2015), from “Answers to Letters”, in: “The Great Enigma”, translated from the Swedish by Robin Fulton

[havingapoemwithyou]

Man walking to work by Denis Johnson

[a-quiet-green-agreement]

"It's true, though: time moves in its own special way in the middle of the night," the bartender says, loudly striking a book match and lighting a cigarette. "You can't fight it."

– Haruki Murakami, After Dark

[petaltexturedskies]

Pablo Neruda, The Complete Memoirs of Pablo Neruda

[mothprincess]

Mona Awad, from Bunny

[letterful]

also, re: poems & structure. go in there 👇🏻

Structure & Surprise

Engaging Poetic Turns

[letterful]

ironic structure

emblem structure

concessional structure

retrospective-prospective structure 

elegy’s structures

dialectical argument structure

descriptive-meditative structure

mid-course turn

epiphanic structure

circular structure

cliche-and-critique structure

dejection-to-elation structure

dream-to-waking structure

list-with-a-twist structure

metaphor-to-meaning structure

question-and-answer structure

reductio ad absurdum

story-with-a-moral structure

turn-to-another structure

[weltenwellen]

Joy Sullivan, from “Culpable”, Instructions for Traveling West

[mossyshadows]

yes pleassseeee do your lesbian scifi fantasy short stories list

here are some recs not in any particular order! general heads up as per prev post that i do read a lot of (body) horror & toxic dynamics so please be mindful of checking cw !

immigrant girl from the end of the world - hannah yang

bride / butcher / doe - lowry poletti

archaeological evidence for the time traveler - tia tashiro

the name ziya - wen-yi lee

think of me before i disappear - raahem alvi

hungry daughters of starving mothers - alyssa wong

dead air - nino cipri

xianrenzhang - jiaqi kang

scream queen - julia armfield

horror story - carmen maria machado

bonus (comic) on a sunbeam - tillie walden