si fas est

hannah. 20. classics and art history student.

[metamorphesque]

musings on the sun

christina perneta, noor hindi, vincent van gogh, jeanette winterson, zinaida vysota docenko, anne sexton, olga kos, khalil gibran

[metamorphesque]

Leila Chatti, “Tea”

[sublime-acceptance]

Danielle Oteri, from "Morning with Michelangelo"

[sublime-acceptance]

small loves

frank o'hara, "steps" | thomas campion, "follow your saint" | weegee "[lovers on a park bench]" (c. 1940s) | rainer maria rilke, "the book of poverty and death III.1" | brassaï, "couple d'amoureux dans un petit café, quartier italie" (c. 1932) | margaret atwood, "variation on the word sleep"

[orpheuslament]

i never shivered i knew love the whole time wednesday

[sublime-acceptance]

Jane Kenyon, from "Three Songs at the End of Summer"

[antigonick]

To love existence is to love what is indifferent to you

—Frank Bidart, excerpt of "Visions at 74", in Half Light

[facinaoris]

Girls That Never Die: Poems, Safia Elhillo

[sublime-acceptance]

lord byron, "when we two parted" | phoebe bridgers, "scott street" | edward j. steichen, "dana's hands and grasses, long island, new york" (1923)

[sublime-acceptance]

on things

gregory orr, "ask the tree or the house" | anonymous, "design for three chairs upholstered in green and yellow" (19th century) | rainer maria rilke, "the ninth elegy" | james mcneill whistler, "cremorne gardens no. 2" (c. 1870-80)

[bluerotundas]

This is no garden. This is my brother and I need a shovel to love him.

“A Brother Named Gethsemane” by Natalie Diaz in When My Brother Was an Aztec

…but abel was no lamb, he was my brother, and I killed him.

Cain by José Saramago

[moonstoast]

@rbhvleo // roberto ferri // mothering by ainslie hogarth // rainer maria rilke // ? // planet of love by richard siken // a self portrait in letters by anne sexton // indian summer by ron hicks

[lyric-aes]

murder by death - brother // titian - cain and abel

[toomanyrats]

on shame and yearning (pt.2)

[neophaim]

Sources:

S.T., "300122," Tumblr, January 30, 2022, https://www.tumblr.com/ryebreadgf/674840497145233408/300122-st.

Silas Denver Melvin, "love as an act of merciful conquer," Tumblr, November 2, 2021, https://www.tumblr.com/sweatermuppet/669052643259432960/from-love-as-an-act-of-merciful-conquer-by-silas.

chandajaan, Tumblr, accessed via https://rockboci.tumblr.com/post/674728141263093760.

Richard Siken, "Birds Hover the Trampled Field," in War of the Foxes (April 28, 2015).

Emily Palermo, "What I Could Never Confess Without Some Bravado," The Rising Phoenix Review, March 15, 2016, https://therisingphoenixreview.com/2016/03/15/what-i-could-never-confess-without-some-bravado-by-emily-palermo/.

Georges Bataille, My Mother/Madame Edwarda/The Dead Man (January 1, 1966).

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (April 1, 2000).

Frank O'Hara, "Homosexuality," Poetry Foundation, May 1970, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=31570.

Heather Havrilesky, "I'm Broke and Mostly Friendless, and I've Wasted My Whole Life," The Cut, November 28, 2018, https://www.thecut.com/2018/11/im-broke-and-friendless-and-ive-wasted-my-whole-life.html.

Lucille Clifton, "climbing," in The Book of Light (July 1, 1992).

[asoftepiloguemylove]

ON DREAMS

Clarice Lispector / pinterest / Augusto Cury / Li Qingzhao (tr. Jiaosheng Wang) Tune: The Pertridge Sky; Complete Poems / unknown / Blade Runner 2049 (2017) dir. Denis Villeneuve / Victor Hugo from a letter to Adèle Foucher written March 1822 / unknown / Charles Dickens The Fellow of No Delicacy; The Tale of Two Cities / Anaïs Nin The Diary of Anaïs Nin / Sappho XII / Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai dir. Jim Jarmusch

[fairydrowning]

"Well, let it pass; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice."

– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Short Stories

[sublime-acceptance]

Walter Kaufmann, from “Art, Tradition, and Truth”