Anne

Gustav Klimt - Study for the Figure of "Lasciviousness" (Beethoven Frieze), 1901

— Vita Sackville-West, from “Solitude.”

Willa Cather // Franz Kafka

— Arabelle Sicardi, from “The Year in Ugliness.”

Alicia Ostriker, from “In the Twenty-Fifth Year of Marriage, It Goes On.”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky // Alanis Morissette

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The world is a sphere of ice and our hands are made of fire

[text id: 5. MY MOTHER ALWAYS TOLD ME TO NEVER PLAY WITH KNIVES. I BET SHE NEVER SAW ME BECOMING ONE. / 6. I SHARPEN MY TEETH ON MY SKIN.]

I promise you, i was here , i felt things that made death so large it was indistinguishable from air - and i went on destroying inside it like wind in the strom.

Hieu Minh Nguyen, from “Nguyen”, Not Here

-Bylthe baird, if my body could speak

if my body could speak, blythe baird // i put the coffin out to sea, lisa marie basile // @/belovedbi // ? // been a son, nirvana // elektra, sophokles; translated by anne carson // ? // churching, kristin chang

brain--rott on tumblr//The Mountain Goats, 'Riches and Wonders'//ivipl1 on tumblr//Mark Strand, 'Keeping Things Whole'//?//humunanunga on tumblr