Paruyr Sevak, "To Go Mad" (translated by metamorphesque)

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John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989)

[text ID: I want to love somebody because I want to be loved. In a rabbit-fear I may hurl myself under the wheels of the car because the lights terrify me, and under the dark blind death of the wheels I will be safe.]

The Bonaventure Pine, Paul Signac

[text ID: promises made by june / had rotten / by the time august came. / i’ve mistaken silence with nothingness / and unlearning it asks for courage / i know not how to muster. / this half-empty glass of orange juice, / ever-present on its throne of dust, / on this wooden table, / holds more promise than i ever will. / i, a personified you, for this is not a wall but a mirror / [personified] / i, i mean you, i mean [redacted] / you eat the sun and with your burnt tongue / try to sing songs / not about pain. / don’t you? / in july / [i] you tried to stretch the rare / moments of happiness but our feet / always seemed to stay out of the / blanket / uncovered. / how do i love something without / fully succumbing to it? / you thought you had to die for you to live, didn’t you? / you thought there’s always a spring after a winter / you didn’t think that / this vivaldian symphony hadn’t been written for bodies like ours, . did you? / in july / you didn’t know that loneliness is a crowded town / yet /  it’s always been bestowed upon you / to lock the gates / and turn off the lights / every night, / did you? / june made promises it knew it couldn’t keep. / but i shall be wiser / in august.]

Luna moth By: Chris Mattison From: A Practical Guide to Exotic Pets 1994

by Yuri Shevchenko

Remoras crowding a shark By: Unknown photographer From: The Complete Encyclopedia of the Animal World 1980

Tatiane Freitas Splices Contemporary Acrylic Elements Onto Traditional Wooden Furniture

tamashell

Fossilas: crinoid stems and stars including a 6 pointed pentacrites and a pyritised ammonte