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Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

#Idk the context for this but it reminds me of Radclyffe Hall #she would be mother lover and sister to her #literature #words

takecareofyourblessings

Where Seed Falls

Stalking

The neighborhood is dangerous

but we go there

We walk the long way.

OUr jangling keys

mute the sound of our stalking.

To be under the sky, above

or below a man.

This is our heat.

Radiant in the night.

Our hands blister with semen.

A field of flowers blossoms

where we gather

in empty warehouses.

Our seed falls

without the sound or

grace of stars.

We lurk in shadows.

We are the hunger of shadows.

In the dark

we don’t have to say

I love you.

The dark swallows it

and sighs like we sigh.

when we rise

from our knees.

#poetry #essex hemphill

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Getahun Assefa Balcha (Ethiopian, 1967), Women Fishing, 2019. Acrylic on canvas, 199 x 100 cm.

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Marina Abramovic - Cleaning the Mirror

bustakay

‘And now she also knew the desolation of small things, the power to give infinite pain that lies hidden in the little inanimate objects that persist, in a book, in a well-worn garment, in a half-finished letter, in a favourite armchair. She thought: ‘They go on – they mean nothing at all, and yet they go on,’ and the handling of them was anguish, and yet she must always touch them. ‘How queer, this old armchair has outlived him, an old chair – ‘ And feeling the creases in its leather, the dent in its back where her father’s head had lain, she would hate the inanimate thing for surviving, or perhaps she would love it and find herself weeping.'

Radclyffe Hall

#text #lit #the well of loneliness #this book is utterly piercing #special to me

amiablesummer

On Names and Love

Tennessee Williams, ‘The Vine’ from Selected Stories // Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care // Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People // Stephen Sondheim, ‘Maria’ from West Side Story // Naomi Shihab Nye // Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea // Shilpa Goel // Aidan Chambers, Nik: Now I Know

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Coffin Texts, spell 714

gnossienne

Strauss’ Salome, dir. Hans Neuenfels for Staatsoper Berlin (2019)

metamorphesque

i-merani

One must imagine Sisypus happy not because he enjoys the struggle but because the struggle is all he has. Journey on the hill is who he is, without it he would lose all sense of identity. In an absurd world we define the struggle as our identity, identity is all we have and we are eager to maintain it even if it brings us misery.

amare-habeo

Dezider Tóth (Slovak, born 1947)

Sheet music LXIV. Weeping (Lamentácia), 1976–1978

Paint on paper, 45 x 62.5 cm

garadinervi

Lawrence Weiner, Preparatory Drawing For Gyroscopically Speaking, (from a set of 4 drawings), 2010 [Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY, and Paris. © Lawrence Weiner]