nonsense, rottenness, art

[beguines]

American Poetry Review

[mayonezli]

Green Mosque - Kütahya, Türkiye.

[pollyj]

The white domes of Chitral Mosque point upward to the 25,289' summit of Tirich Mir, the highest mountain in Pakistan's Hindu Kush Range, some 50 miles in the distance.

Ric Ergenbright

[stavroginas]

James Baldwin, from Jimmy's Blues and Other Poems; "Conundrum (on my birthday) (for Rico)"

[bluewillowmoon]

“So what I desire most these days are the kinds of stories that will carry me into another summer. Meaning, the days when my skin burns most bright. & the tragic thing about language is how casually we use it. I say burn, & you may think a body lost to a forest. You may think the hottest star—dying out. I say burn & it is a love track lost to passion. An endless field of longing.”

— Chaun Ballard, from “Yes, I Beat Jason’s High-Yellah Ass for Making Fun of My Pronunciation and Emancipation Was Really Not That Long Ago,” Second Nature (BOA Editions Ltd., 2025)

[a-state-of-bliss]

Elie Saab Haute Couture Fall/Wint 2016

[leahgardner-art]

he’s going places

[groupieculture]

x

[stevebucky-deactivated20221119]

<3

[firstfullmoon]

Paisley Rekdal, from “Happiness” [ID in alt text]

[soracities]

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, “On Writing On Your Own Terms”

[Text ID: “I mean I’m writing to remember. I’m writing to remember. I’m writing to remember.

But also I’m writing to challenge memory. We’re back to the gaps, the places where language stops. Let me in.”]

[lollyrosy]

we watched the Kākāriki blurring into skies of tōtara and rimu, an aurora australis in January

[photoarchive]

Raúl Cañibano, Habana, 2007

[snototter]

Sea emeralds (Chaetomorpha coliformis), a type of green algae, on the coast of Wharekauri, Aotearoa

by Svenja Heesch

[niebowplucach]

ocean vuong you're the only one writer ever

[nobrashfestivity]

Thomas Cooper Gotch. The Lantern Parade. 1918

[redlipstickresurrected]

Jie Song (Malaysian, b. 1982, Malaysia, based Kuala Lumpur, KL, Malaysia) - Flourish in Radiance, 2025, Paintings: Oil, Acrylic on Canvas