Horror & Wonder

a side blog for my wip

[nixscriptum]

less of a poem, more of a reminder. ( ఌ )

[theoptia]

“I restore, reconstruct, walk thus in the midst of death. And it allows no grace, no halo, no truce.”

— Alejandra Pizarnik, from Selected Poems; “The Cure of Folly”

[feral-ballad]

Tawanda Mulalu, from Please Make Me Pretty, I Don't Want to Die: Poems; “All we got was autumn. All we got was winter”

[smokefalls]

I open my mouth and, despite the world, use it almost daily to fall in love. This is so direly human of me— so egregiously alive.

Kayleb Rae Candrilli, "Thoughts on Romance as the Heat Index Rises" from All the Gay Saints

[majestativa]

The enchantress of light.

HANANE AAD (حنان عاد) — Banquet of Mercy for the Universe, transl. by Peter Waugh & Hanane Aad, (2022)

[geryone]

Daddy, Jake Byrne

[geryone]

Daddy, Jake Byrne

[fashion-runways]

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[howifeltabouthim]

. . . it was truth that was the undoing, the terrible burdening, and once divulged, life was irrevocably warped and could not be put back into a comfortable shape.

Brandon Taylor, from Minor Black Figures

[mournfulroses]

Andrei Tarkovsky, from a diary entry featured in Time Within Time; Selected Diaries

[geryone]

Hammer Is the Prayer, Christian Wiman

[smokefalls]

I admire your half- life, the way you refuse complete death and rewrite your worst misgivings to be even bloodier.

Kayleb Rae Candrilli, "Elegy for the Undead" from All the Gay Saints

[petaltexturedskies]

Ada Limón, from "The Quiet Machine"

[geryone]

The Opening Ritual, G. C. Waldrep

[majestativa]

The sea knows: if it wanted to it could drown the world.

— ELMER DIKTONIUS ⚜️ Ice Around Our Lips: Finland-Swedish Poetry, transl. by David McDuff, (1989)

[mournfulroses]

John Keats, from a letter to Fanny Brawne, featured in The Selected Letters of John Keats

[geryone]

Birthright, George Abraham