Quis ut Deus

Paul van Dongen, Crown of Thorns (2) / Crown of Thorns (3) / Crown of Thorns (4) / Crown of Thorns (5)

Paul van Dongen, Crown of Thorns (2) / Crown of Thorns (3) / Crown of Thorns (4) / Crown of Thorns (5)

— Natalie Wee, from “Wei Ying Tells Me about Resurrection,” Beast at Every Threshold

Guante, “The Spill” (via buttonpoetry)

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

— Jean-Dany Joachim, “This Evening, I Will Not Cry for My Dead,” via Mass Poetry 

Erlkönig  https://youtu.be/3F8TJ8qarls

from Pluma Sumac’s essay “A Disgrace Reserved for Prostitutes: Complicity & the Beloved Community” in LIES, a journal of material feminism, no. II

George Shaw (British, b. 1966), Every Brush Stroke is Torn Out of My Body, 2015-16. Enamel on canvas, 178.5 x 198 cm.

—Rosario Castellanos, “The Other” (tr. Magda Bogin)

Marina Tsvetaeva, Poem of the End (Trans. by Paul Schmidt)

toni morrison, sula // stephanie peters, fire // seneca, medea (trans. a.j. boyle) // david mcconochie, medea // peter russell, night the first // stephanie peters, roaring flame // hozier, arsonist’s lullabye // jackson pollock, the flame

Abbas Kiarostami, from “A Wolf Lying in Wait; Poems,” published c. 2015

Madeline Miller, Circe

— ​Jill Khoury, from “Sixteen,” published in Diode (via knives-and-poisons)