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“from my rotting body, flowers shall grow, and I am in them, and that is eternity.”

[swordsking-deactivated20210811]

“I, with my romantic need and longing,”

— Susan Sontag, from a journal entry featured in Reborn: Journals & Notebooks (1947-1963)

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“I am fond of lovers but I cannot love, I am too far away, am banished,”

— Franz Kafka, from a diary entry wr. c. January 1917 featured in “Diaries,”

[weltenwellen]

Ocean Vuong, from “Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong”, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

[mournfulroses]

Ya Xian, from a poem titled "Andante Cantabile," featured in A century of modern Chinese poetry : an anthology

[propertiesofjoy]

rainer maria rilke, letters to a young poet

[ratcity]

The OBSESSION with identity is so crazy like the view that when you do something it immediately becomes part of your identity and all the parts of you have to click together to become “person who wakes up early” or “person who reads” no you can literally just do something without restructuring your whole performance of personhood around it. I don’t know what to tell you except that you will never be able to have an entirely unfractured view of yourself or that you will be able to rationalize all the complex parts of yourself into the phrase “person who x” like you should just be doing things without performing them. Or aestheticizing them. Just try different things on and keep what works for you. Otherwise you will never learn and grow!

[free-my-mindd]

[metamorphesque]

musings on June

1. anne sexton (“the truth the dead know”), 2. anne sexton (“suicide note poem”), 3. mary oliver (“august”), 4. l.m. montgomery (“anne of the island”), 5. morgan parker (“the black saint & the sinner lady & the dead & the truth”), 6. found poems: sylvia plath / peter k. steinberg (“percy key among the narcissi”) artwork by hugo grenville

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from his novel titled "The Fall," originally published in 1956

[inkpressedpetals]

[kosmogrl]

[weltenwellen]

Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

[metamorphesque]

A Middle-Earth Traveller, John Howe

[weltenwellen]

Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib, from “And What Good Will Your Vanity Be When The Rapture Comes”

[metamorphesque]

unfolding into another spring

mahmood darwish, sylvia plath, v.e. schwab, ana mendieta

[flowerytale]

Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

[apocryphics]