no grace to go

she/her, 25. / “I feel the desire to pray. I don’t know whom to address.”

[latinademais]

Ipanema beach. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1961. Elliott Erwitt.

[cottaegecore]

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

[slowartday-blog]

Dorothea Lange, Untitled (Adele Boke), 1951, gelatin silver print photograph

[godsopenwound]

What do you do when God puts his hands on the table, / pink-red palms / asking for forgiveness?

What happens to forgiveness when God is your father / and you discover he’s just a man with two hands—

B: William Bearhart, from At The Dinner Table With God And My Father

[cloth-fabric]

University Of Westminster Ba - Fall RTW 2020

[lifeinpoetry]

But what is the body but language, untamed?

And what is this music—

— Cynthia Cruz, from “Fragment,” Hotel Oblivion

[blackmoonmusings]

Alejandra Pizarnik, from Diana’s Tree

[andrumedus]

“It was not eternity. It was spring. Spring that blooms and passes.”

— Rosario Castellanos, tr. by Magda Bogin, in The Selected Poems of Rosario Castellanos; “The Splendor of Being”

[kaalbela]

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, sculptor and founder of Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Photographed by Robert Henri, 9 January 1975.

[sentimentalbot]

— James Baldwin, from, “If Beale Street Could Talk,” originally published in 1974

[firstfullmoon]

“what you lack and the punishment for your / lacking are the same”

— Kaveh Akbar, from “Portrait of the Alcoholic with Moths and River,” in Calling a Wolf a Wolf

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

ophiraa:

I want to be cured Of a craving for something I cannot find And of the shame of never finding it

— T.S. Eliot, from The Cocktail Party (Mariner, 1964)

[vintageeveryday]

A group of people lying in a drunken heap in a living room, 1954. Photographed by Kurt Hutton.

[weltenwellen]

Vincent van Gogh quoting Victor Hugo’s “L’année terrible” in a letter to Theo van Gogh, July 1888

[metamorphesque]

“God, you don’t mind if I bring all my kitchens? They hold the family laughter and the soup.”

— Anne Sexton, Clothes

[petaltexturedskies]

Emily Dickinson in a letter to Elizabeth Holland wr. c. 20 January 1856

[lavandula]

raquel zimmermann at alexander mcqueen autumn/winter 2006-2007