“–and What I Really Meant To Say Is, Girls Like Us Are Fluent In Silence. When We Bite Our Tongues,

Euripides, tr. by Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

Lucky Wreck, Ada Limón

Web weaving about the untold story in you !

when arctic monkeys sang “I wanna be your vacuum cleaner, breathing in your dust” and when the lumineers sang “damn your wife, I’d be your mistress just to have you around” and when hozier sang “if I was born as a blackthorn tree, I’d wanna be felled by you, held by you” and when son lux sang “if you need to, you can break me too, please just take me with you” and when of monsters and men sang “I’ll be the blood if you’ll be the bones, I’m giving you all” and

Sue Zhao // Dialogues on Love #4 // “Maybe I already do”

the tragic hero attains something like divine completeness, except that for human beings completeness is death.

Teeth Never Sleep, Ángel García

IN THE DARK TIMES WILL THERE ALSO BE SINGING? YES, THERE WILL ALSO BE SINGING. ABOUT THE DARK TIMES.

(1. @soracities​ 2. sam sax, prayer for the mutilated world 3. joy harjo, perhaps the world ends here 4. rhiannon mcgavin, poll worker + bonus bertolt brecht)

“I coped by retreating and maybe I did become a mirror, a polished surface that shows nothing of what lies beneath.”

— Rebecca Solnit, from The Faraway Nearby  (via feestje)

love in the time of cholera, gabriel garcía márquez // carmilla, joseph sheridan le fanu // letter of testimony, octavio paz (trans. eliot weinburger) // planet of love, richard siken // the queen of carthage, louise glück // excerpt from a letter to fanny brawne, john keats // little weirds, jenny slate // clarification, franz wright // sonnet lxvi, pablo neruda (trans. ilan stavans) // gone: poems, fanny howe.