last romeo

[funekarasu]

rkgk

[a-magpie-witchling]

“One man goes into the waters of baptism, a different man comes out, born again. But who is that man who lies submerged? Perhaps that swimmer is both sinner and saint, until he is revealed unto the eyes of man.”

— Bioshock Infinite

[weltenwellen]

Tomas Transtromer, from"Streets in Shanghai“ Bright Scythe

[feral-ballad]

Caitlyn Siehl, from What We Buried; “Desperate”

[Text ID: “I will never forget the place that I loved you, even if it is raining ash.”]

[feral-ballad]

Joy Sullivan, from Instructions for Traveling West: Poems; “These Days People Are Really Selling Me on California”

[Text ID: “I would like to touch the world / and not harm it. I would like to be touched and not harmed.”]

[wnq-music]

“Did you cut your hands on me? Are my edges sharp?”

— Sufjan Stevens, “Enchanting Ghosts”, All Delighted People (2010)

[soracities]

Marina Tsvetaeva, from "Bus", Selected Poems (trans. Elaine Feinstein, with Simon Franklin) [ID'd]

[feral-ballad]

Trista Mateer, from Aphrodite Made Me Do It; “Personal reflections on gender”

[Text ID: “sucking the dirt out from under your own nails just to taste where you came from / without ever having to go back there”]