Ruination

Imperfectly formed, half understood, poorly remembered  

[weltenwellen]

Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

[1000drawings]

by Aidan Koch

[thewolveswithin]

Jane Birkin about Serge Gainsbourg

[weltenwellen]

Carl Phillips, from "Somewhere, right now, a hawk", Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020

[feral-ballad]

Caitlyn Siehl, from What We Buried; “Kindling”

[Text ID: “I am all mouth, with teeth like kindling. / Do not kiss me before you know this. / I am all hunger, all restraint and poised bones, coiled spine, patient spring.”]

[mournfulroses]

Arthur Rimbaud, from The Complete Works of Arthur Rimbaud; "A Heart Under A Cassock,"

[weltenwellen]

Yves Olade, from “Hylas, On Desire”

[weltenwellen]

June Jordan, from "Poem For Nana", Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems

[weltenwellen]

Janelle Tan, from “Second Aubade for Singapore"

[metamorphesque]

love is a religion

Anne Sexton, Roberto Ferri, Terese Marie Mailhot, George Frederic Watts, Christopher Soto, Roberto Ferri, Elisabeth Hewer, Roberto Ferri, Sappho (attr.), Roberto Ferri, John Keats, Herbert Draper, Richard Siken, Denis Sarazhin, Katherine Philips, Franz von Stuck, Richard Siken, Gustav Vigeland, Richard Siken

buy me a coffee

[metamorphesque]

all of my devotion turns violent

Ada Limón, Jen Mazza, Japanese Breakfast, Denis Sarazhin, Anaïs Nin, Louise Bourgeois, Pablo Neruda, Joseph-Désiré Court, Crimson Peak (2015)

buy me a ☕

[metamorphesque]

— Tathève Simonyan, Colourless Musings

[text ID: In my corner of the world, killing is a love language.]

[metamorphesque]

Peaky Blinders: Season 5, Episode 1

[derangedrhythms]

[…] as I lean toward madness […]

Anne Sexton, from 'A Self-Portrait in Letters’ ⁠— W. D. Snodgrass, c. 15th November 1958

[feral-ballad]

Jihyun Yun, from Some Are Always Hungry; “The Leaving Season”

[Text ID: “It’s strange / to know this world I loved, / loves me most / dismembered.”]

[fromdarzaitoleeza]

{ Words by Megan Fernandes, from "Fabric in Tribeca," in Good Boys / Silas Melvin, from "Twenty," Grit }

[metamorphesque]

“Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.”

— Frank O’Hara, Mayakovsky

[metamorphesque]

"Darling, I Left the House…", Joseph Brodsky