DEATHLESS

anne sexton // richard siken// margaret atwood // virginia woolf

(R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War)

Skeleton Praying (c. 1600s) Skeleton Pleading (c. 1600s) Marble floor of the Cornaro Chapel

Edward Robert Hughes (1851 - 1914) The Weary Moon

The Witcher (2019-)

— ‘On the Heights of Despair,’ E.M. Cioran

Vasko Popa, excerpt from ‘The Blackbird’s Field’

Octavio Paz, ‘Perpetua Encarnada’

『ベッドルーム』 2015 22×22

— Kazimierz Wierzyński, tr. by Czeslaw Milosz, “A Word of Orphists,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

— Arabelle Sicardi, from “The Year in Ugliness,” published in The Poetry Project

There’s a shivering light on the street tonight, strange shadows on the lawn–a black horse running in the grass and vanishing at dawn.

original photos and edit

detail of hands from guercino’s the return of the prodigal son (1619)

by Janis RoseAnne