sit and rot

i hope you enjoy it

[carry-on-my-wayward-butt]

its so brave that you have such a 2012-coded url in this 2024 world

would you call a bear brave for standing in a new construction suburb or would you recognize the unfamiliar world they built around him

[weltenwellen]

Leila Chatti, from "Postcard from Gone"

[ihateyouvishal]

"I may think of you softly from time to time. But I’ll cut off my hand before I ever reach for you again."

//Arthur Miller, The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts

[abeer993-deactivated20240123]

Nasr Abdel Aziz Eleyan | A Girl’s Dream (1977)

[weltenwellen]

Mary Oliver, from “Hum Hum”, A Thousand Mornings

[anditslove]

Andrea Gibson, Birthday

[astriloquum]

[metamorphesque]

― Ovid, Metamorphoses

[leatherandmossprints]

‘Moonlit Dreams’ by Gabriel Ferrier, c. 1874.

[feral-ballad]

Bianca Stone, from What Is Otherwise Infinite: Poems; “God Searches for God”

[typewriter-worries]

[ Text ID: I have nothing to give but tears, of which one is too much and a whole sea not enough. ]

[feral-ballad]

Dulce María Loynaz, tr. by James O’Connor, from Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems

[Text ID: “Your hands have a strange clarity. Have you been walking among the stars?”]

[weltenwellen]

Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

[aviel]

Irving Penn - Iceland Poppy (2006)

[nemfrog]

Plate 24. Illustrations of British entomology. 1828-29.

Internet Archive

[clearbreathing]

from blood, wings by susie benes

[roadmotel]

Augustín Gómez-Arcos, The Carnivorous Lamb

[soracities]

Marina Tsvetaeva, excerpt from Poem of the End, Selected Poems (trans. Elaine Feinstein, with Angela Livingstone)

[aridante]

what resembles the grave but isn’t, anne boyer // i didn’t apologize to the well, mahmoud darwish (trans. fady joudah).