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— Donika Kelly, from “A dead thing that, in dying, feeds the living,” in The Renunciations

Najwan Darwish, "Three Mukhatabat" trans. Kareem James Abu-Zeid

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 3x07 / The Copenhagen Trilogy, Tove Ditlevsen / Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 3x03 / Sylvia Plath, quoting a friend / Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 3x15 / Bloodsport, Yves Olade / I know that it won't work, Gracie Abrams / Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 3x16 / From Eden, Hozier / Underbelly, Nicole Homer / Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 3x21 / Othello, William Shakespeare / Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 3x17 / Doll Parts, Hole / Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 4x14 / The Guest, Anna Akhmatova / Wikipedia

Visions of Excess by Georges Bataille / An Oresteia by Anne Carson / Art by Scott Donaldson (@/underwaterlad on ig) / Art by Anthony Cudahy / YOUR FATHER MY FATHER by Mal Fawzy / Quote from Ash by Tracy K. Smith / Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk / Dearth by Deborah Stevenson / Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

sources (correct me if they can be more accurate!) cop car - mitski, art linked here, the rip - portishead, art linked here, crack baby - mitski, art linked here, unmade - thom yorke, art linked here

The First Books of Sampson Starkweather, Sampson Starkweather // Baby Teeth, Bug Hunter // Shynestar // Apple, The Narcissist Cookbook // The Hook, Jam Mechanics // Ilya Kaiminsky // Women Poets of Japan; Blasphemy, Yoshihara Sachiko // Twitter, Sanna Wani // God’s Perspective, Bo Burnham // Phaedra's Love, Sarah Kane

Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals

Poplar Street by Chen Chen (1) / Lies About My Mother by Daniela Dröscher / Mother by Maia Baia / from the 'Things you wanted to say but never did' series by geloyconcepcion / The Love Club - Lorde / Acts of Desperation by Megan Nolan / Twenty by Silas Denver Melvin @sweatermuppet / Mother and Daughter by Hayan Charara / Lady Bird (2017), dir. Greta Gerwig / Coraline (2009), dir. Henry Selick / Family Tree - Ethel Cain / I Remain in Darkness by Annie Ernaux / Electra by Sophocles, tr. Anne Carson (1) / Parts of Me Never Left That House by Mada Hayyas / Mother and her Child (1902) by Károly Kernstok, oil on canvas / Mother and Child (c. 1906) by Julius Gari Melchers, oil on canvas / Susan Smith - Wych Elm / The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh / Electra by Sophocles, tr. Anne Carson (2) / Quote by Katie Maria / Succession, Season 3 Episode 8 / For One More Day by Mitch Albom / Supernatural, Season 12 Episode 22 / Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn / the guessing game: a mothers love by Silas Denver Melvin @sweatermuppet / Mad Men, Season 6 Episode 12 / Timor Mortis by Louise Glück / Poplar Street by Chen Chen (2)

Mary Oliver, "October" Devotions /Dorethea Lasky, "Misunderstood" Tunderbirds/Albert Camus/Delia Owens, Where The Crawdads Sing/ Jason Bayani, Story is The Love Langugage/Jason Bayani, Story is The Love Langugage/Michael Cunningham, "The Hours"/Heavensickness/

richard siken, "war of the foxes" & "crush"

Mal Fawzy (@soncomplex)

Averno by Louise Glück (i) / Travels in the Scriptorium by Paul Auster / The Vault by Andrés Cerpa / Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury / Andrew by Daniel Martin / Self-Portrait by Norris Yim / Disco Elysium / The Lonely City - Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing / Dream Song 29 by John Berryman / The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami / The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher / from the ‘Things you wanted to say but never did’ series by geloyconcepcion / Mindhunter Season 1 Episode 4 / Goodbye Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto / Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut / Averno by Louise Glück (ii) / Self Portrait with Tape by Claire Witteveen / Scars by India Lawton / The Lover by Marguerite Duras / I am an observer, but not by choice by Fatima Aamer Bilal / Imagine an Empty Room by Caitlyn Siehl

kofi

let dead dogs lie - silas denver melvin // red dog - elizabeth frink // how to be a dog - andrew kane // domestication syndrome - dhole b // no origin found // for your own good - leah horlick // it will come back - hozier // pleasure - beth cavener // i am a dog. i have blood all over my teeth. - sciencedfiction // same poem as directly previous

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