heretical

Madness as a defense against terror. Madness as a defense against grief

[apocryphics]

Susan Sontag

[richardsikendaily]

[skywailer]

“Monsters are always hungry, darling, and they’re only a few steps behind you, finding the flaw, the poor weld, the place where we weren’t stitched up quite right, the place they could almost slip right into through if the skin wasn’t trying to keep them out”

— Richard Siken, Snow and Dirty Rain (via kehrouac)

[lifeinpoetry]

“All the people I could be are dangerous. / The blood clotting, oil in my veins.”

— Fatimah Asghar, from “Oil,” If They Come for Us

[heteroglossia]

“My brother used to ask the birds to forgive him; that sounds senseless but it is right; for all is like the ocean, all things flow and touch each other; a disturbance in one place is felt at the other end of the world.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov 

[medeae]

“I will change my body into someone else’s. Hurt it, until it is nothing but meat. Then I will force it to remember everything.”

— Cynthia Cruz, from “Plush,” Year Zero (via lifeinpoetry)

[forbiddensimpsonspics]

[winterofherdiscontent]

“Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.”

— Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections (via wearebeguiler)

[adrasteiax]

“I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; (…)”

— Mary Oliver, from Dogfish in “New And Selected Poems: Volume One”

[drogonqueen-archive]

“I can’t stop thinking of the future / as the past, imitating a god.”

— Carl Phillips, from “Yet No Less Grateful,” published in The Southeast Review

[thenatsdorf]

[r-siken-deactivated20210531]

a primer for the small weird loves, richard siken

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

“How do we remove those splinters of memory and remain ourselves?”

— Richard Jackson, from “Belief,” Out of Place: Poems (Ashland Poetry Press, 2014)

[soiecerise]

“I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not a virtue. It was a disguise.”

— Anaïs Nin, The Diary Of Anais Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947 (via thelovejournals)

[wehavekookies]

Gentle creatures.

[byaseashore]

[queerkeitcoven]

“[I]n Jewish folklore demon are not considered evil; they will only return hurt for hurt - whether or not the hurt is intentional … The human assumption is that demons do not belong to the human world; hence the human moral system does not apply to them. The agreement between man and demon is based on fear of the demons’ vengeance if man breaks the agreement.”

— Tamar Alexander, “Theme and Genre: Relationships between Man and She-Demons in Jewish Folklore” in Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Review (1992) 14:56-61. (via magica-pseudoacademica)