I speak the language of waves,

for I have sea foam in my veins

[l-ecume-des-jours]

“You get used to the dark, you realize the ghosts are all friendly.”

— Jack Kerouac, from “Desolation Angels,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

[quotespile]

“But there are no grown-ups, that’s what you must grow up to know fully; your parents were just two more bodies experiencing landscape and weather, trying to make sense by vibrating columns of air, redescribing contingency as necessity…”

— Ben Lerner, The Topeka School

[cloudswamp]

there is only one of everything, margaret atwood

[eclipsate-deactivated20130206]

Au fil de l’eau by Alex Maga on Flickr.

[weltenwellen]

Nicole W. Lee, from "Even the Dust"

[last-picture-show]

Paul Klee, Dream City, 1921

[last-picture-show]

Fosco Maraini, Fisherman with Nets on the Sea of Japan, 1953

[dailyclassicart]

Josef Thoma

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

“I wanted to break something inside you. Enter some fissure in your soul, that dark room with its dirt floors and melancholic choirs. To fall into the underground cavern of you, forget, awhile, the burnt taste of my own grief, the cracked vessel of my heart.”

— Danusha Laméris, from “Break,” The American Poetry Review (vol. 50, no. 1, January/February 2021)

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

“I wanted to break something inside you. Enter some fissure in your soul, that dark room with its dirt floors and melancholic choirs. To fall into the underground cavern of you, forget, awhile, the burnt taste of my own grief, the cracked vessel of my heart.”

— Danusha Laméris, from “Break,” The American Poetry Review (vol. 50, no. 1, January/February 2021)

[yama-bato]

Luca Ortis

[activeoblivion]

i've been drowning in the undertow in the face of every fear, in the eye of the storm longing for a touch of serenity because it's overwhelming me

[huariqueje]

Downstairs  - Frank Gregory , 2021.

American,b. 1962 -  

Oil on canvas , 22 x 16 in.

[last-picture-show]

Zdenek Tmej, Waiting For Better Tomorrows, 1949

[petaltexturedskies]

Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

[last-picture-show]

Jenny Holzer, Public Art, Times Square, New York, 1982

[mutant-distraction]

William Garnett

Snow Geese with Reflection of the Sun over Buena Vista Lake, California (1953)