And The Bitterness In Goodbye

Pedro Salinas, tr. by Ruth Katz Crispin, from Memory in My Hands: The Love Poetry of Pedro Salinas; “The voice I owe to you”

[Text ID: “and the longing / to love, to love you, more.”]

The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020), Mike Flanagan//Crimson Peak, Guillermo del Toro//Ocean Vuong//Fear Street part 3: 1666 (2021), Leigh Janiak//Could you ever live without, David Jones//Invisible Monsters: Vision, Horror, and Contemporary Culture, Jeffrey Weinstock//Midnight Mass (2021), Mike Flanagan//Black Telephone, Richard Siken//The Haunting of Hill House (2018), Mike Flanagan//The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020), Mike Flanagan

Margaret Atwood, Interlunar; from ‘Eurydice’

Federico García Lorca

Of all my dead it’s you

who come to me unfinished

— Adrienne Rich, A Woman Dead in her Forties

Postcolonial Love Poem, Natalie Diaz

Elaine Castillo, America Is Not The Heart Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Ijeoma Umebinyuo, ‘Confessions’, Questions for Ada Mohamad Hafez, Baggage series Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited Anne Carson, ‘The Glass Essay’, Glass, Irony, and God Margaret Atwood, ‘November’, You Are Happy Richard Siken, ‘Boot Theory’, Crush

Cathy Linh Che, from Go Forget your father//Friedrich Nietzsche// Richey Edwards// // Moss Angel, Girldirt Angelfog// Rainer Maria Rilke, Fragment of an Elegy,// Leila Miccolis, till death do us part.

“We are all the dead. I am not apart from you for long, except for breath, except for everything.”

— Forgotten Portraits by Janine Solursh (via decreation)

“Like any unloved thing, I don’t know if I’m real when I’m not being touched.”

— Natalie Wee, from “Lonely,” Our Bodies & Other Fine Machines (AMAZON / GOODREADS)