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art/literature blog

[identifiedbutflying]

i imagine the butches’ stripper bar - jill mcdonough

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12 Days of Medieval Illuminations. Today, 11 medieval suns. (Getty Museum)

[blond-shell]

INCONSOLABLE (2024) KATIE GAVIN

[half-a-corpse-half-a-poet]

-Zoë Lianne

[lovelyy-moonlight]

Emma D'Arcy as Romeo in ‘Romeo and Juliet’.

[charminglyantiquated]

wanderlust and what you could become

(they’re pen pals for the rest of the traveler’s life)

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— Mary Oliver, Wild Geese

[identifiedbutflying]

trans rights - the uk and ireland agree

(london, england - wicklow, ireland - glasgow, scotland)

[irisharchaeology]

An old fisherman’s hut in the wilds of Connemara

[identifiedbutflying]

[identifiedbutflying]

poetry submissions are terrifying oh my god

[rivetingrosie4]

"Oranges" - Gary Soto, June 1983

one of my very favorite poems. that last line slays me. it has stayed with me for years and years.

[identifiedbutflying]

some day i will illustrate joan of arc as a young transmasc burning in the fire of the far-right witch hunt, today is not that day but still know that i am him, they are me, we are one.

[bergahorn]

[oldfilmsflicker]

“Blackberry-Picking” by Seamus Heaney

[firstfullmoon]

Diane di Prima, “April Fool Birthday Poem for Grandpa”

[firstfullmoon]

Jill McDonough, “Love and the Deli Counter”