final girl

on hunger, and dealing.

[weltenwellen]

Aimee Seu, from "In Flux: 25"

[soracities]

Emily Skaja, from "I Liked Myself Better as an Exquisite Skeleton", pub. The Offing [ID'd]

[ronandreams]

erin lecount, sweet fruit

[tanglelegs]

"There it is for you, then. That's what happens, that's what they say: There's not a wolf alive that can't tame a man."

Denis Johnson, from "Train Dreams"

[tanglelegs]

They heard only each other, they knew only each other, they rode upon the back of thunder, and the thunder welcomed them, and they were the thunder and the mountain too.

Mark Z. Danielewski, from "Tom's Crossing"

[tanglelegs]

Miles are surveyed near as fast as the speed of light, hardly provokin any warnins of resistance. Measure, though, such narrows and fields by the dead that covered them, and we're quick to apprehend the loomin infinities territory commands.

Mark Z. Danielewski, from "Tom's Crossing"

[tanglelegs]

He couldn't imagine a greater torment than to find hisself where there was such an unholy absence of furry and feathered and even slimy creatures. Wasn't it in their presence that the sky was lifted and the world breathed? Just watch for a spell a colt tryin to outrace a field or a red hawk soarin on a west wind, you'll see what happens to the sky. You'll know how the world sighs.

Mark Z. Danielewski, from "Tom's Crossing"

[tanglelegs]

It's not a bad idea to remember feelins are an experience of deep ancestral time. The primal feelins exceed what even a century of life can explicate. The ancient ones have roots millions of years old.

Mark Z. Danielewski, from "Tom's Crossing"

[weltenwellen]

Joy Sullivan, “Want", Instructions for Traveling West

[mournfulroses]

Mahmoud Darwish, from "In the Presence of Absence," originally published in 2006

[soracities]

Yusef Komunyakaa, from "Jasmine", Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems [ID in ALT]

[yesterdaysprint]

Altoona Tribune, Pennsylvania, October 15, 1938

[weltenwellen]

Cathy Park Hong, from "Spring and All"

[latibule-e-deactivated20231012]

— Tiffany Schmidt, from “Bright Before Sunrise.”

[metamorphesque]

Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible. 

Carl Jung, “Memories, Dreams, Reflections”

I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. 

Franz Kafka, “Letters to Milena”

[soracities]

It’s so hard to speak and say things that cannot be said. It’s so silent.

—Clarice Lispector, Agua Viva

[latibule-e-deactivated20231012]

— H.D., from The Collected Poems of Hilda Doolittle: 1912-1944.

[typhlonectes]