“everything beautiful in us / is already / dying.”
— — Gwen Benaway, from day/break (via lifeinpoetry)
hollowness
sylvia plath // lydia roberts // juansen dison “i am the architect of my own destruction” // sarah dessen //ellen jackman//haruki murakami “sputnik sweetheart” // f. scott fitzgerald // miles johnson
from love as an act of merciful conquer by silas denver melvin
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a little much for everyone
heather havrilesky // florence welch // yorgos lanthimos // steven meisel // lorde // taylor swift
Ada Limón, "In the Country of Resurrection" // Jack Kerouac, Big Sur // Mary Oliver, "The Fourth Sign of the Zodiac" // Gregory Orr, "To Be Alive" // Dino Ahmetović // Siniša Simon, Magic Dance // Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver // Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra (trans. Olga Voronina & Brian Boyd) // Mary Oliver, "Toad" // 木苏里, 全球高考 (Global Examination)
“I will lose you. It is written into this poem the way the fisherman’s wife knits his death into the sweater.”
— Gregory Orr, “The Sweater,” The Caged Owl: New & Selected Poems
Sophokles, from Elektra; translated by Anne Carson in An Oresteia
Text ID: ELEKTRA: You have town away the part of my mind where hope was—
1. Meg Day 2. Haruki Murakami 3. Edouard Labrosse 4. Rainer Maria Rilke 5. Ron Hicks 6. Virginia Woolf 7. Joan Didion 8. Ron Hicks 9. Sylvia Plath 10. Anne Magill 11. Franz Kafka 12. Peter Wever 13. Vi Khi Nao 14. Peter Wever 15. Anna Akhmatova
start here, caitlyn siehl // untitled, fortesa latifi // rien ne va plus, margarita karapanau (trans. karen emmerich) // black iris, leah raeder // the thorn merchant, yusuf komunyakaa // monster movie, nicola maye goldberg // a key to common lethal fungi, marge piercy // give me a god i can relate to, blythe baird // crimson peak, dir. guillermo del torro (2014) // the house of hades, rick riordan.