Augustine

Come home

[rosyintheheart]

Visit Original Link

Shy, your light pops out And we stand there astounded And we pound our heads and shout!

[srdcovka]

Hangsaman — Shirley Jackson

[havingapoemwithyou]

After twelve days of rain by Dorianne Laux

[weltenwellen]

Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“I needed to be reminded of mysterious and sacred things,”

— Albert Camus, from his preface to Jean Grenier’s “Les Iles,” c. 1959

[phylogeny]

"But this is my own maze, she told herself, this is the maze I grew up in; I could not be a prisoner here; I know the way so perfectly, and she turned and was further lost."

— Shirley Jackson, The Sundial

[vintage-ukraine]

Ukrainian pianist Liubka Kolessa on holiday, 1920

[echo-temporis]

Evening Sun by Jane Kenyon

[randomvintageeurope]

[girlfleeshouse]

She is alone and unprotected, and that will save her.

[arterial-blues-deactivated20260]

“…she would rather, for instance, have been alone in her room with the door locked, or sitting on the grass by a brook at midnight, or, given an absolutely free choice, standing motionless against a pillar in a Greek temple or on a tumbril in Paris or on a great lonely rock over the sea…”

– Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson

[weltenwellen]

Agoraphobia Katie Grierson

[lazzarella]

“… a spot where two people have been talking, however briefly, is not after that a spot for one person to sit alone.”

—Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson

[randomvintageeurope]

[weltenwellen]

Joy Sullivan, from “These Days People Are Really Selling Me On California”, Instructions for Traveling West

[weltenwellen]

Tracy K. Smith, from “Don’t You Wonder, Sometimes?”, Life on Mars

[randomvintageeurope]

[faggotfungus]

Lightning striking a tree in Philadelphia. Date: 1955