Basil

poetry or not . . . . . . IG—@insanepoetics

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

“I have no eye for eternity. I know only this world, where May’s light lengthens into June’s long days, and someone I love”

— Robert Cording, from section 2, “June Prayer,” of “Four Prayers,” Image (no. 56, Winter 2007-2008)

[voidic3ntity]

each moment, another in which I try to evade myself, the shrapnel:

piercing every last inch of woven threaded fibre, scorching the veil,

rupture from within, piercing my soul, my body, the hanged man.

crucified for sacrifice; onto thou shall life precede in distortion -

languid mirrors, angry angels, dripping hallways, bloodstains.

from time to time, I fall into lapses of instability, blackouts…

in those fine lines of twilight times, my eyes well with fear,

for those tears so many moons ago - shards of my youth.

the times before I knew what true horror was:

it marks places & people caught in crossfire,

in the midst of some tragic crisis of pain;

the point at which gristle begins to grow,

forming the acrid tissue, the necrotic rot.

identity is attachment, for our genes dictate fate;

& it's within the deformation of my frail horns,

that I choose to heal, my voice unwavering,

as I'm holding back the tears, pain, agony;

it's excruciating, the weight of my rotten branches -

branches which grow from the roots of my family tree as tragedy.

each angular dissonance is another rejection of felt experience;

embedded within frailty, the subjectivity relies on the subject.

[vedurnan]

ferdinand hodler, the dream of the shepherd

[namedvesta]

Daniele Accossato, wrapped nº𝟤 (jesmonite, rope, wood), 𝟤𝟢𝟤𝟣

[man-ti-core]

susanna clarke (source) u cannot just say that now i will be Thinking about it Forever

[greatestlittlegiant]

always thinking of that “i couldn’t stop wasting time” quote

[greatestlittlegiant]

song of the summer!!

[classicalcanvas]

Flowering Garden (1888) by Vincent van Gogh

[arinewman7]

Flourish in Radiance

Jie Song

[urgetocreate]

Jie Song (Malaysian), 2025, Oil on canvas

[luthienne]

Jami Nakamura Lin, The Night Parade

[nevver]

Ultramedium, Lee Stewart

[campsis]

Nikita Chan (@nikitachanart)

[nevver]

Lucid dream, Fuco Ueda

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[wedarkacademia]

Louise Glück's

[two-bees-poetry]

[thunderstruck9]

Guy Gladwell (British, 1946-2014), Lace Tablecloth, 1987. Oil on canvas, 36 x 28 in.

[weltenwellen]

Ellen Bass,  "The Thing Is"