O L Y M P I A

the art of being empty

[animula-vagula-blandula]

-Gli uomini che si voltano, da "Ossi di seppia", Eugenio Montale.

[feral-ballad]

Kendra DeColo, from I Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World; “I don’t like to have sex while I’m on my period”

[bluevelvia]

Holly Black, The Prisoner's Throne

[typodescript]

[text: "I want," she says. "That's my problem. I want and I want and I want."

"What do you want?" he asks, voice soft.

"Everything. Charm me. Rip me open. Ruin me. Go too far."]

[weltenwellen]

Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

[boykeats]

[ID: text reading, "No matter how obsessed you've been with your own vanishing, there will always be someone who still wants you whole." /end ID]

[whimsifae]

[weltenwellen]

Ada Limón, from “World Versus Girl”, Sharks in the Rivers

[feral-ballad]

Caitlin Bailey, from Solve for Desire: Poems; “To G, after the party”

[Text ID: “I wonder / what it would have felt like to / have a choice, to choose love, / to hold anything with both hands. / It’a taken me this long / to say I want I want I want,”]

[weltenwellen]

Carl Phillips, from “Civilization”, Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020

[archbudzar]

But Love Was The Archer, 2024

Colored pencil, acrylic, and ink on bristol

[consecuences]

[wedarkacademia]

[jananxiety]

[stlamb]

neil hilborn, numbered days

[shisasan]

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own [originally published 1929]

[diariodiragazzina]

Gabriel Garcia Márquez - L'amore ai tempi del colera

[the-crazymedicinelady]

[ohsosadlove]

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[the-crazymedicinelady]

[ohsosadlove]

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