☽Let us step into the night☾

Kasia, Poland. IG: iridescent_moth

[clawmarks]

Marvels of the universe : a popular work on the marvels of the heavens, the earth, plant life, animal life, the mighty deep - 1913 - via Internet Archive

[antigonick]

This eternally incomplete, eternally unwhole word stirs deep within her, never reaching her throat.

—Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith and E. Yaewon, Greek Lessons

[antigonick]

“On the moon we spoke a soft, liquid tongue, and sang in the starlight, looking down on the dead dried world.”

— Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

[redlipstickresurrected]

Andrzej Kulig (Polish, b. 1998, Warsaw, Poland) - Ghost, 2024, Paintings: Oil on Canvas

[ketzalcoatl]

ketzal_coatl

[metamorphesque]

 — Lullaby for Myself, Vahan Teryan

[text ID: Finally it's dark, / a peaceful night. / The stars telegraph: / Nothing lasts but light.]

[a-quiet-green-agreement]

For some reason I couldn't feel any pain; it was more a loss of the earth beneath my feet, a vacuum devoid of all coordinates. I wasn't lonely, I didn't miss him, but I could not get rid of him. His absence was just a different sort of presence, like when you know that an uninvited guest has fallen asleep outside your door.

– Daniela Fischerová, from “Far and Near,” Fingers Pointing Somewhere Else: Stories (Catbird Press, 2000)

[simena]

Bruce Kendall

[fashionarmies]

COVER  |  Miki Ehara for WWD Beauty Japan - January 2017

[thirdity]

“Writing is a strange, inhuman function, a reflection of the inhumanity of language itself. Through writing, language, which is a domestic species, becomes a wild one again.”

— Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories V

[mournfulroses]

Marina Tsvetaeva, from The Essential Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva; "For Anna Akhmatova,"

[uroko]

Rainy day in Kamakura

[petaltexturedskies]

Anna Akhmatova, from "Don't Frighten Me" in Selected Poems

[gentlier]

Image I.D. — “the damp of an October day became sweeter than the softness of May.” — End I.D.

[weltenwellen]

Rita Dove, from "Voiceover"

[sofysta]

[jinxproof]

Liv Tyler, 1995 | © Lara Rossignol

[myost]

[now-playing] - the cure - disintegration - 1989