Ramblings of a traitorous mind.

"'Υou' who forever elude me."

[weltenwellen]

Wildness Before Something Sublime Leila Chatti

[loveridden1999]

adult grief by louise glück

[comparativetarot]

The Star. Art by Amburrito Art.

[pollen]

Edward Hirsch, from "Late March"

[kocalls]

[mournfulroses]

Tove Ditlevsen, from a poem featured in There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die: Selected Poems

[archive--ooo]

poem about your laugh, susan glickman (1990)

[slobbering]

Evgeniya Gor  - “Photographs the homeless cats of Kazakhstan” (2006)

[mournfulroses]

Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer written in 1913, featured in Letters To Felice

[pmamtraveller]

Luca Ponsato - Does Anyone See My Suffering

[quotespile]

“How foolish to think you can tell your children about yourself before they’re at least fifty. To ask to be seen by them as a person and not as a function. To say: I am your history, you begin from me, listen to me, it could be useful to you.”

— Elena Ferrante, The Lost Daughter

[soracities]

"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

[paper-mario-wiki]

HEY wanna read but annoyed on where to find copies of books?

Here's an archive with millions of PDFs of books and papers and magazines and essays and stuff.

[meltedgarment]

I've been looking for such archives, thanks

[fealty-to-thee]

you’ve been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress).

i was not going to publish this essay because i don’t like to yell but here the fuck i am.

the first link broke, here you go

[poetic-questions]

—Ursula K. Le Guin, "Entanglements: March 31" from Collected Poems

[petaltexturedskies]

Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

[feral-ballad]

Yvonne Caroutch, tr. Gloria Still, from Serving Blood: New Poems by French Women; “The day lowers its head…”

[feral-ballad]

Hanif Abdurraqib, from A Fortune for Your Disaster: Poems; “It is maybe time to admit that Michael Jordan definitely pushed off”

[feral-ballad]

Hanif Abdurraqib, from A Fortune for Your Disaster: Poems; “I tend to think forgiveness looks the way it does in the movies”