Lyre & Lion

Borrow sparks; build fires

[pmamtraveller]

Arkhip Kuindzhi. "Night at Dnepr river," 1880.

[lyreandlion]

I have a panel inside my head— it’s Rothko-black; it’s edges are soft. The surface shimmers darkly. It calls me inside.

Another invasion of my body leaves it weak and in agony. I close my eyes hoping to find an internal distraction to the engulfing pain.

There it is. The panel.

I sense I can enter so I search for a button doorknob lever— nothing about the panel sits still.

My mind’s eye finds a point in it’s dark. i don’t know what this is. I know I can use it.

I zoom in on that pinchable point— my attempt at mental locomotion. I pull— it works! It feels a bit like swimming.

Another point; another pull. Whoosh Deeper. Again.

There is nothing but this— fixate on a point; pull to it. What about there?

Every point I choose becomes another place to choose.

No walls just field after open field— every arrival feels the same.

How do I get to the other side of pain?

I pull. Deeper. Further. Again and again. I’m getting good at it . . . Just zooming around I’m happy.

Another point? Why not? Forward. And again.

Eyes open. I see my books and they are finally enticing. Where’s my cranberry juice? Time for Enya again.

[massoflesh]

Martin Johnson Heade, Gremlin in the Studio I, ca. 1865-75

[lostfunzones]

Sylvia Plath.

[worldscoolest]

“The Firm” by Jocelyn Bain Hogg, 2011 | @ archivistmag

[creatureofaction]

“I long for a kind of quiet where I can just drift and dream.”

— David Lynch

[bestiolin]

Adrian Samson

[vintage-tigre]

Debbie Harry, 1977

[portalibis]

Sphinx and Chimaera by John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925)

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[worldscoolest]

[lostfunzones]

Sylvia Plath at the beach, Summer 1953.

[cosmicbacklog]

Sogno di Plutone (Pluto's Dream) or sometimes referred to as L'Oracolo (The Oracle) by Italian painter Alessandro Sicioldr, 2018

[laza66]

Arnold Genthe (Allemand / Américain, 1869-1942), Helen Moeller et une élève inconnue, 1921.

[beammeupplease]

Dora Abodi

[fiery-kitty]

“Die Wunderblume” / “The Miracle Flower” – Sidonie Springer (1919)

[thesobsister]

Dan Hillier, Ground (2020)

[cultofthedarksun]

Hans Unger