Alanna. London. 27.

[notaminnah]

to be understood is possibly the greatest form of intimacy.

[podencos]

“It’s like waking up to sunlight everyday” — this is how my love makes me feel too

[nearlya]

Cy Twombly. Pan II, 1980, mixed media | Untitled, 1982, mixed media

[expiredpersona]

[avellino]

anthony bourdain: parts unknown episode 8 - congo

[existential-celestial]

Ilya Kaminsky on the question of poetry as political witness and resistance from “Still Dancing: An Interview With Ilya Kaminsky (Garth Greenwell, Poets & Writers March/April 2019)

[thebellavita]

[rosecrystal]

when margaret atwood said “the desire to be loved is the last illusion. give it up and you will be free”

[moonandnightss]

— Mary Oliver, Entering the Kingdom

[drapedinink]

[hirxeth]

[gorgonapologist]

Heather Havrilesky, Haunted Womanhood

[luthienne]

Franz Wright, from God's Silence; "East Boston, 1996"

[Text ID: Walking home, for a moment / you almost believe you could start again. / And an intense love rushes to your heart, / and hope. It's unendurable, unendurable.]

[antigonick]

“I thought I understood your longing—it looked so much like mine.”

— Rebecca Lindenberg, excerpt of “Love, An Index”, from Love, An Index

[lilgivenchyprincess]

Nora Kogan

[museofaesthetics]

i’ve become this soft and gentle woman. i embrace my emotions, i cry whenever i need to, i forgive myself for certain experiences and move on with love. i just love the space of being soft and gentle. this version of me is beautiful.

[growaglow]

― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance