a.d. mitier

Genshin Impact | Nicole's Story Workshop

— Beckian Fritz Goldberg, from “Eros in His Striped Shirt,” In the Badlands of Desire (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1993)

But some bonuses, like morning, like right now, like noon, like evening.

Illuminated page of the 8th century Codex Aureus, a book of gospels known for having been ransomed back from the vikings by its Anglo-Saxon owner. Ironically, the book was bought from Canterbury Cathedral by Spain in the sixteenth century, and then by Sweden - descendants of the vikings - in the seventeenth.

You look like you’ve eaten the sun, like you drank so much sunlight you’re drowning in it.

we’re here now. we’ve been here for so long that we’ve carved a ghost out of our waiting. we’ve woven ourselves a haunting. something is dead because we killed it. & now there’s blood under our nails & Mercury in retrograde. we can kiss over the corpse until sunrise, but we still have to dispose of the body.

They stand in the snow wearing their Harbinger cloaks. Arlecchino, softly smiling, offers her hand to Columbina, who takes it with a smile of her own. End ID.]

Columbine, in her desire to return to the moon.

— Ocean Vuong, excerpt of Eurydice (via antigonick)

— Billy-Ray Belcourt, from “Ode to Northern Alberta,” after joshua jennifer espinoza, This Wound Is a World

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Wildness Before Something Sublime Leila Chatti

It reads, "Grief unmakes. The world, the word. Because I approached it desperately, language fled from me. Language is like an animal, wary of fear. Say each word was a bird--alighting briefly, out of reach and then gone again. Or, when caught forcibly, it wrestled fiercely against my grip, then died from the strain of its efforts." End ID.]

🤖 & 🍧

Aino turns away from someone off-screen, her face covered in stickers. From behind, Ineffa smiles fondly at Aino. End ID.]

Adonis, tr. by Khaled Mattawa, Selected Poems

It reads, "I am not your sea / I am not the swans you wait for". End ID.]

The Monk by the Sea (1810) by Caspar David Friedrich