pull me in, pull me in, pull me in

[ID: That summer I did not go crazy / but I wore / very close / very close / to the bone.]

#151

Sarah Kay / @dreaming—and—doing / Franz Kafka / Natalie Diaz / John Geddes / Marie Howe / Franz Kafka

- Vivera Rossi

moss bones 🌿🦴 🍃 💀

— Daniel M. Lavery, How To Respond To Criticism (via boringoldraphael)

Cassandra ~ Evelyn De Morgan/ Witch's Sabbath ~ Francisco Goya/ The Incredulity of Saint Thomas ~ Caravaggio/ Judith and the Head of Holofernes ~ Gustav Klimt/ Scene from 'Tom o' Shanter': Witches Dancing in Alloway ~ Alud Kirk/ Abraham and the Angels ~ Sebastiano Ricci/ Glass with Roses ~ Vincent Van Gogh/ The Coronation of the Virgin ~ Diego Velázquez

I think my lover’s cane is sexy. The way they walk like a rainstorm stumbles slow across the landscape. How, with fingers laced together, our boots & canes click in time-unsteady rhythm of a metronome’s limp wrist. All sway & swish, first person I ever saw walk with a lisp. Call this our love language of unspokens: We share so many symptoms, the first time we thought to hyphenate our names was, playfully, to christen ourselves a new disorder. We trade tips on medication, on how to weather what prescriptions make you sick to [maybe] make you well. We make toasts with acetaminophen bought in bulk. Kiss in the airport terminal through surgical masks. Rub the knots from each others’ backs. We dangle FALL RISK bracelets from our walls & call it decoration. We visit another ER & call it a date. When we are sick, again, for months -with a common illness that will not leave-it is not the doctors who care for us. We make do ourselves. At night, long after the sky has darkened-in-something like a three-day-bruise, littered with satellites I keep mistaking for stars-our bodies are fever-sweat stitched. A chimera. Shadow-puppet of our lust. Bones bowed into a new beast [with two backs, six legs of metal & flesh & carbon fiber]. Beside my love, I find I can’t remember any prayers so I whisper the names of our medications like the names of saints. Orange bottles scattered around the mattress like unlit candles in the dark. /End transcript]

Into the Sun - Elijah Gowin

Monet's Garden, Giverny, France ( via )

montgomery woods state reserve by Lisa

sunlight

Shinji Moon, The Anatomy of Being