Calling you home

[takemyselffromyoureyes]

[brunettee-chickk-deactivated202]

I purposely ignore hints so you can speak up and be direct like an adult

[weltenwellen]

Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I’m Home

[anthropologyofwater-deactivated]

— excerpt from war of the foxes: “birds hover the trampled field” by richard siken

[inceliklerden]

mélancolie.

[mayada2]

[windflowerfairy]

by Emily Dickinson

[lifeinpoetry]

“Do you know what a ghost looks like? / It looks like blood.”

— — Valzhyna Mort, from “Rose Pandemic,” Music for the Dead and Resurrected

[lifeinpoetry]

Yes, I did write in my letter that I would wait for you forever. I didn’t mean exactly “forever,” I just included it for the rhythm.

— Dunya Mikhail, from “Non-Military Statements,” The War Works Hard tr. Elizabeth Winslow

[beefandcorn]

are you worried

About what? But yeah

[takemyselffromyoureyes]

[watchoutforintellect]

“September 22. Nothing.”

— Franz Kafka - from The Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1910-1923

[redlipstickresurrected]

Tomas Ronse aka Tom Ronse (Belgian, b. Belgium, based New York, USA) -  1: Africa 4.4, The Great Lake  2: Africa 4.5, Meanwhile on the Indian Ocean from African Memories series, Photography

[redlipstickresurrected]

Katrin Koenning (German, b. 1979, Ruhrgebiet, Germany, based Melbourne, Australia) - From her Glow series, 2012-2015. Glow is a body of work focused on things that have assumed a short-lived or unexpected state of glow (things which, by nature, don’t glow). Photography

[redlipstickresurrected]

Nicola Samorì (Italian, b. 1977, Forli, Italy, based Bagnacavallo, Province of Ravenna, Italy) - Anulante, 2018  Paintings: Oil on Copper

[lifeinpoetry]

“I have died for the smallest things. / Nothing washes off.”

— — Angela Jackson, from “The Love of Travelers,” And All These Roads Be Luminous: Poems Selected and New

[lifeinpoetry]

worried

I’ll revert back to how I was

a monster

— Jenny Zhang, from My Baby First Birthday