every touch is a modified blow

[weltenwellen]

Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh

[mournfulroses]

Anne Sexton, from an interview featured in No Evil Star: Selected Essays, Interviews & Prose

[petaltexturedskies]

June, July, August. Every day, we hear their laughter. I think of the painting by van Gogh, the man in the chair. Everything wrong, and nowhere to go. His hands over his eyes.

Mary Oliver, from "August"

[expressions-of-nature]

Moonrise over The Temple of Poseidon, Greece by Thanassis Economou

[weltenwellen]

Ruth Awad, from “Reasons To Live”

[astereaus]

Mahmoud Darwish, A River Dies of Thirst

[starrover]

― Louise Glück, Snowdrops, from: The Wild Iris (1992)

[luthienne]

Anne de Marcken, from It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over [ID'd]

[celtos]

the sensual world. louise glück

[mariacfrantz]

Twin stars always fall to earth together!

[weltenwellen]

Rainer Maria Rilke, The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation

[letterful]

— ANNA KAMIEŃSKA, trans. Clare Cavanagh & Stanisław Barańczak.

[feral-ballad]

Bianca Stone, from What Is Otherwise Infinite: Poems; “Psychodynamic motivational speech”

[majestativa]

My biography: alienation to the bone.

— Fawziyya al-Sindi, The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology, transl by Joseph T. Zeidan, (2001)

[tethered-heartstrings]

what do you mean I can't crawl in between the slats of your ribs and sleep soundly to the beat of your heart? do you even love me?

[forestgreenlesbian]

The Aliens Seek to Understand Pain, Kristina Erny

[becomingvecna]

— David Cronenberg, Consumed