[jawsandclaws]

and if I leave let it be clean

let it be without pieces of me

caught in someone else’s hands.

let me learn

how to open my hands

without mistaking it

for loss.

[fuzzbby]

Arturo Kameya.

[xanaxfarts]

Cornelia Parker: ‘Subconscious of a Monument’ (2001) Earth excavated from underneath the Leaning Tower of Pisa

[peabah]

Krzysztof Grzybacz

Yellow, Blue, Orange, 2025 oil on canvas

200 x 160 cm

78 3/4 x 63 in

[achillesinhighheels]

[mmaisonnnn]

[cosmonautroger]

Andrew Wyeth, Moon Madness, 1982

[kharacore]

jenny holzer

[artgsposts]

Paul Delaroche

The Young Martyr (1855)

[constanzarte]

Death of Sappho, by Miguel Carbonell Selva

[constanzarte]

Gabriel Ferrier, Moonlit Dreams

[the-night-picture-collector]

/ Louis Faurer, Construction Site on Madison Avenue, toward Rockefeller Center, 1947

[zegalba]

Marcin Ryczek: Man Feeding Swans (2013)

[english-idylls]

Detail of Saint Catherine of Alexandria by Caravaggio (1598-99). 

[she-initiated-deactivated202510]

[inkskinned]

the hardest part isn't even the being alone - it is that i know i have all this love fossilizing in me, a pearl. a plum stone. it's that i want to find someone to fissure it out into; my palm an open cup.

i know one must love oneself first. i know friendships are real love. i know i know i know. but i also - so timidly - i keep picturing my life as being with someone. to hand them my heart and have them say ah, this is the kind of thing i was dreaming of.

[firstfullmoon]

Anne Sexton, from “Doors, Doors, Doors,” in The Complete Poems [ID in alt text]