“Are You Scared Of The Dark?” He Asks Me. I Say, “Why Would I Be Scared Of What Is Part Of Me?”

Ocean Vuong ||| Nickie Zimov

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

Pablo Neruda, Selected Poems

Lucky Wreck, Ada Limón

Angela Carter, from The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories; “The Bloody Chamber”

“I fulfilled the prophecy of your throat, loosed in you the fabulous wing of my mouth. Red holy-red ghost. Left my body and spoke to God, came back seraphimed—copper feathered and horned. Our bodies are nothing if not places to be had by, as in, God, she had me by the throat, by the hip bone, by the moon. God, she hurt me with my own horns.”

— Natalie Diaz, The Cure for Melancholy Is to Take the Horn (via theundying)

self-portrait against red wallpaper, richard siken

Anne Sexton, from A Self-Portrait in Letters

Elektra, Sophokles tr. Anne Carson // Arcane (2021) // What Could Have Been, Sting // Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022) // Great Expectations, Charles Dickens // Fallen Angel, Alexandre Cabanel // The Cruel Prince, Holly Black // The Sandman (2022) // Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn