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semicolonsoliloquy

All my friends are sick

or busy or both,

and even the sky

can’t see me today,

pale and sniffling as it is;

I walk alone, jealous of the raindrops

picnicking together on lilac leaves,

their faces shining, though the lilacs

are gone, long gone.

exitwound

dead butterfly by ellen bass

lifeinpoetry

see her: little cousin, little sister, sparrow-boned, alive.

i want to turn to firewood everything that hurts her.

i do not have the verbs for what i need for her.

i needed them myself & was not protected.

i want to make ash of this world that did not protect us

& from that nourished soil sprout one better.

— Safia Elhillo, from "Elegy," Girls That Never Die

astraldemise

scáthach bunny

lostography

“You will freeze in place if you remain this way. You must not, dear. You have to move.”

— Rainer Marie Rilke, letter to Sidonie Nádherná von Borutín, August 1, 1913, translated by Ulrich Baer

metamorphesque

— Heaven, Mieko Kawakami

[text ID: I knew that it was cruel to be so optimistic, but, in my solitude, I couldn't resist the urge and spent entire days basking in idiotic fantasies, sometimes verging on prayer.]

flowerytale

Virginia Woolf, from The Waves

filmnoirsbian

from Tenderhooks by Joan Tierney

redshield-writes

Another scifi story with a very experimental POV. This one is a bit…angrier? in tone than the last two. But! It felt good to write, and I hope you enjoy reading it. It’s a bit longer than the others as well, so make sure you have the time! Warnings for grief, loss, and a very loyal starship.

QUERY: Where is my pilot?

QUERY_ALL: Where is my pilot?

>_Your pilot is dead. You have been called as a witness in their posthumous corporate trial. You will answer the Board’s questions without hesitation or omission.

ERROR: I don’t understand. My pilot is good. They would never have need to stand trial.

SUGGEST: Reassessment of trial’s necessity.

>_Overruled. You will answer the Board’s questions.

Keep reading

dog-teeth

creature from my spanish notes, who my friend has named "Squeed Need"

dog-teeth

stellabat

that bad sensory moment when you’re trying to do something that requires a lot of focus and the people around you are talking loudly and you’re just sitting there like $&@&&@@^%#%^%***++*%%#%^*+%%%

stanningsos

I can only explain this in cat memes

raeiyyn

1.dorothy kunhart, pat the bunny // 2. // 3. mitski, a pearl, art by @hauntedomens // 4.hieu minh nguyen, buffet etiquette // 5.art from pinterest // 6.christa wolf tr. by jan van heurck, cassandra: a novel and four essays // 7.extracurricular (2020) dir.kim jin min // 8.louise bourgeois, destruction of the father/reconstruction of the father: writings and interviews 1923-1997 // 9.alice osman, radio silence // mitski, fireworks, art by uol.art (on insta)