[witch-breaker]

[lifeinpoetry]

And if at the end of healing there is nothing?

— Brenda Hillman, from "the cave," Loose Sugar

[lifeinpoetry]

I have not almost-killed-myself in two years and three months,

but

I look at old poems and think,

someone should do something about this bleeding body.

my mouth, the space where a dead thing used to live,

even now.

— Brenna Twohy, from “I Am Not Clinically Crazy Anymore,” swallowtail

[xanaxfarts]

Moonbows

A moonbow, also known as a lunar rainbow or white rainbow, is a rainbow created by moonlight rather than sunlight. It's formed when light from the moon refracts and reflects off water droplets, like those in rain or mist, creating a visible arc of light in the sky. Moonbows are generally fainter and less colorful than regular rainbows, and they are much rarer due to the need for specific conditions like a full or near-full moon, clear skies, and dark skies.

[xanaxfarts]

Japanese Wisteria (Wisteria floribunda 'Alba')

[uroko]

奈良公園 Nara Park

[jetix]

Bleeding Fairy Helmets on Mount Cordeaux, 2024

[girlfictions]

— Christopher Citro, from Right Like Yellow Along a Banana

[expressions-of-nature]

Dolgiye Mountains, Russia by Arseny Kashkarov

[metamorphesque]

The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

[girlfictions]

Mary Oliver, from On Meditating, Sort Of

[metamorphesque]

Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami

[metamorphesque]

It’s not you I’ve lost, but the world.

a kind of loss (Ingeborg Bachmann), variations on the word love (Margaret Atwood), i am the brother of xx (Fleur Jaeggy), don’t go far off, not even for a day (Pablo Neruda), recreation (Audre Lorde), wuthering heights (Emily Brontë), i carry your heart with me (e. e. cummings)

[theoptia]

Hermann Hesse, from Reflections

[feral-ballad]

Kapka Kassabova, from Someone Else’s Life; “Two: Made”

[feral-ballad]

Ramy Al-Asheq, tr. by Isis Nusair, from Ever Since I Did Not Die; “The Fighter Stripped of Her Braids”

[feral-ballad]

Vikram Seth, from Summer Requiem: A Book of Poems; “The Tree of Many Names”