oh, to be a flower

drifting down a river

[spitblossoms]

[noelbadgespugh]

[spiritual-vibrations]

[danskjavlarna]

From Tulane’s 1935 yearbook.

Here’s my gallery of unusual imagery from vintage college yearbooks.

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[gaycommunist]

david berman “self portrait at 28” // @psychedellic-phase “fifteen” // virginia woolf // @heavensghost sufjan stevens “futile devices” // richard siken “wishbone”// franz kafka // ivan turgenev “first love” // anne sexton “mama and papa dance”

[thewriterscaravan]

“There should be a word for when blue goes from powder to midnight. From sea to vein. From origin to eclipse.”

— Scherezade Siobhan, from “Radius” (Published in Berfrois)

[danskjavlarna]

Slowing time.  From Rockford’s 1918 yearbook.

Sands through the hourglasses: my timely collection of vintage hourglasses.

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[noorshirazie]

“Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.”

— Franz Kafka

[octobers16th]

[negativepleasure-deactivated201]

[weandthecolor]

All in this Island: Solo Show by Andrea Devia Nuño at Silk Gallery

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[lifeinpoetry]

What is lineage, if not a gold thread of pride and guilt? She did what?

Once, when I thought I had decided not to have children, a woman said, But who are you to kill your own bloodline?

I told my friend D that, and she said, What if you want to kill your own bloodline, like it’s your job?

— Ada Limón, from “The Hurting Kind,” The Hurting Kind

[vietlad]

CARY GRANT as Johnnie Aysgarth in SUSPICION (1941) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

[orihhiro]

[spiritual-vibrations]

[spitblossoms]

[metamorphesque]

— Susan Sontag, Death Kit

[text ID: How can I describe my life to you? I think a lot, listen to music. I’m fond of flowers.]