theh2omelon

[abwwia]

Laura Aguilar, Nature Self-Portrait #11, 1996, gelatin silver print, 16 x 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the American Women’s History Initiative Acquisitions Pool, administered by the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative, 2021.27.4, © 2016, Laura Aguilar Trust

[herheadinfilmspodcast]

James Baldwin: From Another Place (Sedat Pakay, 1973)

[aconissa]

Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle Vincent van Gogh, Garden at Arles (1888)

[mynorthernattitude]

locked in? no. i'm tucked in. goodnight

[thelostcanyon]

Chihuahuan Meadowlark (Sturnella lilianae), J-Six Ranch, Cochise County, Arizona.

[weltenwellen]

Rainer Maria Rilke in a letter to Lou Andreas-Salomé, published in Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters

[apoemaday]

Bashō in Ireland

by Billy Collins

I am like the Japanese poet who longed to be in Kyoto even though he was already in Kyoto.

I am not exactly like him because I am not Japanese and I have no idea what Kyoto is like.

But once, while walking around the Irish town of Ballyvaughan I caught myself longing to be in Ballyvaughan.

The sensation of being homesick for a place that is not my home while being right in the middle of it

was particularly strong when I passed the hotel bar then the fluorescent depth of a launderette,

also when I stood at the crossroads with the road signs pointing in 3 directions and the enormous buses making the turn.

It might have had something to do with the nearby limestone hills and the rain collecting on my collar,

but then again I have longed to be with a number of people while the two of us were sitting in a room

on an ordinary evening without a limestone hill in sight, thousands of miles from Kyoto

and the simple wonders of Ballyvaughan, which reminds me of another Japanese poet

who wrote how much he enjoyed not being able to see his favorite mountain because of all the fog.

[weltenwellen]

Tomatoes Joy Sullivan

[expressions-of-nature]

Dolgiye Mountains, Russia by Arseny Kashkarov

[classicalcanvas]

Road with Cypresses (1890) by Vincent van Gogh

[primulaceas]

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Poor Folk (translated by C. J. Hogarth)

[weltenwellen]

I Do Know Some Things Richard Siken

[vintage-tigre]

[isabella-conti]

Quasi un segreto

[sacredstem]

i’m obsessed with how every single person can be stupid in their own special way and infinitely smart in another. simultaneously

[havingapoemwithyou]

Soup Is One Form of Salt Water by Heather Christle

[jareckiworld]

Francine Van Hove (1942-2025) — The Sphinxes and the Dictionary [oil on canvas, 1985]