la demarche

i didn't want any flowers

[hifas]

Criaturas

Michel Groisman

[musicktoplayinthedark]

David Lynch

[lifeinpoetry]

what is ruin      if not the body becoming

aware of itself?

— Kristin Chang, from “War Song,” published in Two Peach

[poetryconcrete]

Máscara Sensorial, by Lygia Clark, 1966.

[drunkmuppetpunk]

[self-shadowing-prey]

aversive stimulus (?)

[regardintemporel]

Francis Bruguiere -  Scene From: The way, 1923-1925

[lifeinpoetry]

Somewhere, there is a version of me that isn’t neck- deep in her invented filth

Franny Choi, from “I Guess By Now I Thought I’d Be Done With Shame,” published in The Offing (via lifeinpoetry)

[lifeinpoetry]

I stare in the mirror / take a knife to these delicate       ideals split them         open wider

& wider / avoid the body grip the fruit      tight

it does not taste killer I do not feel victimized this is still        progress

— Alexis Bates & Logan February, from “pomegranate,” published in Luna Luna Magazine

[lifeinpoetry]

I knew God was a man

because he put a baby in Mary

without her permission.

— Tyree Daye, from “Neuse River,” River Hymns

[lifeinpoetry]

r we inviting damage just by being bodies

Tommy Pico, from Nature Poem, published in Western Beefs of North America (via lifeinpoetry)

[grigiabot]

Penny Slinger, Corpus. 1977 (Part of Jane and Louise Wilson’s curated section)

[imageseatthesoul]

Pierre Jahan

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

– but all along I have this almost terrible energy in me and nothing seems to help. I walk up and down the room – back and forth – and I feel like a caged tiger. […]

Anne Sexton, from a session tape w. Dr. Martin Orne, featured in “Anne Sexton: A Biography,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

[lifeinpoetry]

I should have known when he called me “cathedral” I was only a place for sacrifices

Alexis Bates, from “He Used to Pray,” When Cars Touch (via lifeinpoetry)

[arpeggia]

Mary Kelly - Flashing Nipple Remix, 2005, black and white transparencies in light boxes with 3 panels, 96.5 x 121.9 x 12.7 cm (each)

[immafuster]

Marina Abramovic