barred hands

are gone, long gone.

dead butterfly by ellen bass

— Safia Elhillo, from "Elegy," Girls That Never Die

scáthach bunny

— Rainer Marie Rilke, letter to Sidonie Nádherná von Borutín, August 1, 1913, translated by Ulrich Baer

[text ID: I knew that it was cruel to be so optimistic, but, in my solitude, I couldn't resist the urge and spent entire days basking in idiotic fantasies, sometimes verging on prayer.]

Virginia Woolf, from The Waves

from Tenderhooks by Joan Tierney

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creature from my spanish notes, who my friend has named "Squeed Need"

1.dorothy kunhart, pat the bunny // 2. // 3. mitski, a pearl, art by @hauntedomens // 4.hieu minh nguyen, buffet etiquette // 5.art from pinterest // 6.christa wolf tr. by jan van heurck, cassandra: a novel and four essays // 7.extracurricular (2020) dir.kim jin min // 8.louise bourgeois, destruction of the father/reconstruction of the father: writings and interviews 1923-1997 // 9.alice osman, radio silence // mitski, fireworks, art by uol.art (on insta)

But the basket tipped over and she just kinda poured out. I'm not sure she understands what happened. She looks so confused.

Somehow she recovered from her shock.

Adonis, tr. by Khaled Mattawa, Selected Poems

—Gregory Orr, “Origin of the Marble Forest,” in City of Salt