Literature

Adult. Librarian. Writer but writing also tries to kill me.

[musicofthe-ainur]

becoming a writer has cursed me with the inability to just sit down casually with a book. no. i be Noticing

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[mariemariemaria]

St Brigid's Crosses from the National Museum of Ireland Country Life collection

[gluten-free-lap-dances]

Rome on film 10.2024

Canon AE-1 / Kodak Gold 200

[primulaceas]

Alejandro Zambra, Ways of Going Home (translated by Megan McDowell)

[primulaceas]

Natalie Diaz, “Snake-Light.” Postcolonial Love Poem

[mermaidenmystic]

No Turning Back ~ underwater statue ~ Jason deCaires Taylor (English-Guyanese, b. 1974, Dover, England) - in Punta Nizuc, Mexico, 2013

[beautifultimes-beautifulplaces]

Cueva de las Manos, Argentina

[bigbrowneyess]

how morning will look when I'm free

[flowerytale]

J.R.R. Tolkien, from The Return of the King

[webweabings]

IN THE BEGINNING, THERE WAS ONLY THE OCEAN

“Accepting the Universe” (1920), by John Burroughs; // “Literary Paper” (1855), by Edward Forbes; // “A Thousand Flamingos” by Sanober Khan; // Sylvia Earle; // “Wither” (The Chemical Garden Trilogy), by Lauren DeStefano; // “The Immense Journey” ch. The Flow of the River (1957), by Loren Eiseley; // Jacques-Yves Cousteau; // Heinrich Zimmer; // “Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems” (1962), by William Carlos Williams; // “Sandry’s Book” (Circle of Magic Quartet), by Tamora Pierce; // “The Sea”, by Barry Cornwall (Bryan Waller Procter); // Speech at the America’s Cup Dinner (1962), by John F. Kennedy; // Jacques-Yves Cousteau; // Erica Billups; // Robert Wyland; // “Eragon” (The Inheritance Cycle Tetralogy), by Christopher Paolini; // Christy Ann Martine; // Robert Wyland; // “Le testament d'Orphée” (1960), by Jean Cocteau; // Speech at the America’s Cup Dinner (1962), by John F. Kennedy; // “The Infinite Moment of Us”, by Lauren Myracle; // “American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps”, by Julian Hawthorne

[holdingcaulfields]

on identity

ojibwe / noah kahan / richard siken / unknown / elliott smith / oamisoa / cameron awkward-rich

[feet-of-clay]

Arbutus draped in Spanish moss

[petaltexturedskies]

Louise Glück, from "Midsummer" in Poems 1962-2012

[matrose]

recent water pictures

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[mournfulroses]

Emily Dickinson, from her poem titled "1188," featured in The Emergency Poet

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