From Love As An Act Of Merciful Conquer By Silas Denver Melvin

Psyche by Louis Couperus

Louise Glück, from “Blue Rotunda”, Poems 1962 - 2012

@roach-works // Melissa Broder, "Problem Area" // Mary Oliver, "The Return" // @annavonsyfert // Koyoharu Gotouge, Demon Slayer // Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance // David Levithan, How They Met and Other Stories // Tennessee Williams, Notebooks

                                   Everyone is a monster to someone.                             Since you are so convinced that I am yours,                                                       I will be it.

— The Carnivorous Lamb, Agustín Gómez-Arcos, tr. William Rodarmor

the beast you made of me

The Truth and Grunewald, Juan Ramón Jiménez tr. W.S. Merwin | St. Michael,  Luca Giordano | The Bear - Episode 1, Christopher Storer | Fallen Angel, Alexandre Cabanel | Fury, Yevgeny Yevtushenko | Dante et Virgile, William Bouguereau | The Terre Haute Planetarium Rejected My Proposal, Paige Lewis | Study of a Man, Thomas Couture

“I am the hurting kind. I keep searching for proof. […] Love ends. But what if it doesn’t?”

— Ada Limon, from “The Hurting Kind,” The Hurting Kind: Poems (Milkweed Editions, 2022)

- on rebirth, on finding a way to live with the wrong heart

richard siken, portrait of fryderyk in shifting light | unknown | john, darnielle, wolf in white van | russian doll, 01x07 | haruki murakami | richard siken, planet of love | @nephrosoupp x2 | @ibvyache | sylvia plath, the unabridged letters of sylvia plath | dan deacon, when i was done dying | ocean vuong, on earth we’re briefly gorgeous

Medea, Euripides//Olivia, Dorothy Bussy

“i was a darkness in his bed sunless & shining like oil”

— – Safia Elhillo  (via pairedaeza)