words, words, words.

B. 20+. she/they. a literature sideblog.

[mgalibro]

The Starless Sea, Erin Morgenstern

[frankenisms]

The Illustrated Edgar Allan Poe by Satty (1976)

[shear-in-spuh-rey-shuhn-deactiv]

GERARD DUBOIS Moby Dick

[vermilionight-deactivated202302]

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

[lone-nyctophile]

- Beau Taplin

[flowerytale]

Susan Sontag, from “The Dummy”, featured in I, Etcetera: Stories

[altruisticwriter]

-William Wordsworth

[metamorphesque]

— Apprehensions, Sylvia Plath

[text ID: Is there no way out of the mind?]

[lipsticklesbia]

i will never stop thinking about this poem my greek professor showed us

[afternoonpoetics]

jane hirshfield

[lifeinpoetry]

Let us talk about light. How does your mother pronounce it. How does your father bury it. How does your brother borrow against it, betting everything God promised.

— Sun Yung Shin, from “Behind This Door Is a Siberian Tiger,” The Wet Hex

[weltenwellen]

Ocean Vuong, from “Skinny Dipping”, Time Is a Mother

[crystallizedtwilight]

I couldn’t sleep until I drew this

[roadmotel]

Donald Duclow, The Hungers of Hadewijch and Eckhart

[metamorphesque]

— Heaven, Mieko Kawakami

[text ID: I knew that it was cruel to be so optimistic, but, in my solitude, I couldn't resist the urge and spent entire days basking in idiotic fantasies, sometimes verging on prayer.]

[flowerytale]

Virginia Woolf, from To the Lighthouse Susan Sontag, from Reborn: Early Diaries 1947-1963

[feral-ballad]

Katherine Larson, from Radial Symmetry; “Almost a figure”

[Text ID: “Forgive me this old / habit. There is a danger / in making suffering / beautiful.”]