to indeed be a god

maybe i want to live inside one of Bernie Fuchs' works

mary oliver “i am not ther river” // roger deakins “wildwood” // richard misrach “untitled” // ana mendieta // ada limón “mowingä” // jean paul sartre “nausea” // kahn & selesnick // “the waves” virginia woolf // “the waves” virginia woolf // mary oliver //riita ikonen // catherynne m. valente “deathless” // @mossy-suggestions

the orange, wendy cope // orange branches and azaleas in a bronze vase on a southern terrace by the sea, hermine von preuschen (german, 1854-1918) // oranges, mary oliver // still life with orange, cornelio geranzani (italian, 1880-1955) // oranges, jean little

bob hickok // egon schiele “the embrace (detail)” 1917 // dylan thomas “the map of love” // jenny slate “little weirds” // “in the kitchen” helena janecic // “cecila and the satellite” andrew mcmahon // “some sort of love poem” @its_prettybent on ig // ph. nan goldin // nikki giovanni “ever want to crawl”

Cora Ogden / Marius Richters / Rachel Parker / Maria Catharina Boas-Zelander / Kees Jansen / @colinarmistead (x) / Géraldine Morales / Elena Climent / Carolyn Brady

Danez Smith, acknowledgments

“leaves” lloyd schwartz // ilya kaminsky // good will hunting (1997) // unknown // @flowerais // kedi (2016) // “still” marc alan di martino // unknown

One of the reasons I started ODE was to, quite literally, give an ode to sisterhood and female friendship. I’ve been amazed by the power and oneness of women my whole life and continue to be so. Especially the bond and connection that I often feel and see between them has been important to me. It struck me that this bond is often represented in (popular) media as ‘toxic’, dramatic or hostile. I wanted to create a document of photographs that would show a different side without losing honesty. I’ve been photographing couples of best friends, ten so far and still going, on the streets and in their homes to try to explore the dynamics of female friendship and capture what that may look like.

Ada Limón, Mowing // Shaun Tan, The Blue Cow // Shaun Tan, A Temple for Cows //Czesław Miłosz, Notes // Jean Paul Sartre, Nausea

Ilya Kaminsky, “While the Child Sleeps Sonya Undresses” / Joni Mitchell, All I Want / John Edmonds, “Men Like Us,” New York Times Style Magazine / u/expensivetill9 on Reddit / Mitski, I Will / Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe / David Hockney, Domestic Scene / Elizabeth Bishop, “The Shampoo” / Homer, The Odyssey

Arnold Lobel, Days With Frog and Toad / Wendy Cope, The Orange / Gordon Gahan, Young Lovers / Kyle MacLachlan with girlfriend Linda Evangelista / Sleeping at Last, Saturn / Ruth Stone, Yes, Think / Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

thomas merton // “eurydice” sarah ruhl // ernest hemingway // anis mojgani “in the pockets of small gods” // lemony snicket // franz kafka “the castle” // @fridayiminlovemp3 (mitski “strawberry blonde”) // mitski “pink in the night” // khalil gibran // gustave flaubert from a letter to george sand, 1876 // danez smith “acknowledgments” // “love freely” E.C. @desultory-suggestions

“Dear brother. if you don’t have money don’t be shy; don’t leave your family without food,please take what you need for your children from the offered greens since My provision and your Provision is from Allah”

margaret atwood // doom days - bastille // azra t. // carry on - rainbow rowell // romeo and juliet - william shakespeare // cruel summer - taylor swift // gregory orr // red, white, and royal blue - casey mcquiston // romeo and juliet - william shakespeare // cruel summer - taylor swift // erica jong // sober ii (melodrama) - lorde // romeo and juliet - william shakespeare // the raven king - maggie stiefvater // ghosts - florence + the machine // tamerlane - edgar allan poe // the raven king - maggie stiefvater // cruel summer - taylor swift