so it goes

(she/her)

[heavensghost]

life is vulnerability

[bakkhai]

“If I was bound for hell let it be hell. No more false heavens. No more damned magic. You hate me and I hate you. We’ll see who hates best.”

— Jean Rhys, The Wide Sargasso Sea (via cactuslungs)

[wovi]

[weltenwellen]

Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

[gaysie]

they should invent a way for me to bear it

[geryone]

Night Poem, Leila Chatti

[weltenwellen]

Richard Siken, from "Tablecloth"

[indecisivegloom]

[moon-fence]

[strawberry-crocodile]

the curse is lifted! you are no a beast no more! congratulations! but you'll never forget the way they looked at you, will you.

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Fortesa Latifi; everything there is

[weltenwellen]

Maggie Nelson, Bluets

[weltenwellen]

Louise Glück, Poems 1962-2012 / Cynthia Ozick / Adonis, tr. by Khaled Mattawa, from ‘Celebrating Childhood’, Selected Poems / Gregory Orr, from “Origin of the Marble Forest” / Rainer Maria Rilke, tr. by. C.F. MacIntyre, Sonnets to Orpheus / John Boyne, The Absolutist

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 james baldwin

[weltenwellen]

Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

[fromdarzaitoleeza]

Web weaving about the untold story in you !

[ryanlewisandclark]

i cannot hate myself into a version of me i will love.

[ryanlewisandclark]

i cannot punish myself in any way that will unmake the past.