song of myself

Grief is the Thing with Feathers, Max Porter

— Ali Smith, How to Be Both

The Wedding People, Alison Espach

This is sooooo me ❤️‍🩹

James Baldwin, The Evidence of Things Not Seen

Isle of Dogs / Game of Thrones / Painting by Jenn Mazza / Unknown / Ancestral Memory by Hari Alluri / Unknown / Venetta Octavia / Emma Tranter / Unknown / Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo / @ machineryangel

oh

I don’t mean to make you cry. I mean nothing, but this has not kept you From peeling away my body, layer by layer, The tears clouding your eyes as the table fills With husks, cut flesh, all the debris of pursuit. Poor deluded human: you seek my heart. Hunt all you want. Beneath each skin of mine Lies another skin: I am pure onion–pure union Of outside and in, surface and secret core. Look at you, chopping and weeping. Idiot. Is this the way you go through life, your mind A stopless knife, driven by your fantasy of truth, Of lasting union–slashing away skin after skin From things, ruin and tears your only signs Of progress? Enough is enough. You must not grieve that the world is glimpsed Through veils. How else can it be seen? How will you rip away the veil of the eye, the veil That you are, you who want to grasp the heart Of things, hungry to know where meaning Lies. Taste what you hold in your hands: onion-juice, Yellow peels, my stinging shreds. You are the one In pieces. Whatever you meant to love, in meaning to You changed yourself: you are not who you are, Your soul cut moment to moment by a blade Of fresh desire, the ground sown with abandoned skins. And at your inmost circle, what? A core that is Not one. Poor fool, you are divided at the heart, Lost in its maze of chambers, blood, and love, A heart that will one day beat you to death.                        

Crush, Richard Siken

Sources: 1. Sue Zhao; 2. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab; 3. Unknown; 4. @/berecovered; 5. Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Ruth Tiffanny Beauscher; 6. @/rosegardenboyfriend; 7. Monologue for an Onion by Suji Kwock Kim; 8. Tiktok

When We Cease to Understand the World | Benjamín Labatut

Art by Vadim Koval

— Mary Lambert, Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across; "You Are with the Wrong Person" (via lunamonchtuna)