Mary Oliver

Psyche by Louis Couperus

Lidia Yuknavitch, from The Chronology of Water: A Memoir

Ghost Of My Ghosts, Sol Rios

Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”, Leaves of Grass

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1.pat the bunny, I'm not a good person // 2. // 3. mitski, a pearl, art by @hauntedomens // 4.hieu minh nguyen, buffet etiquette // 5.art from pinterest // 6.christa wolf tr. by jan van heurck, cassandra: a novel and four essays // 7.extracurricular (2020) dir.kim jin min // 8.louise bourgeois, destruction of the father/reconstruction of the father: writings and interviews 1923-1997 // 9.alice osman, radio silence // mitski, fireworks, art by uol.art (on insta)

“Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women; kitchen of lust, / bedroom of grief, bathroom of apathy. / Sometimes, the men – they come with keys, / and sometimes, the men – they come with hammers.”

— Warsan Shire, from “The House,” Her Blue Body

Kaveh Akbar, from “Despite My Efforts Even My Prayers Have Turned into Threats“

“Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Good and Evil (via twofacedharveydent)

Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

“You are your own unrepentant Delilah.”

— —  Jessica Helen Lopez, from “Obsidian Knife to Cut the Shit Out,” The Blood Poems