[ID: I am asking you (as I stand with my back to you) to take my life in your hands and tell me whether I am doomed always to cause repulsion in those I love?]

maybe you should talk to someone - lori gottlieb / white ferrari - frank ocean / the poem of the soul - louis janmot / @inkskinned / x / honeybee - trista mateer / the predatory wasp of the palisades is out to get us - sufjan stevens

Danez Smith, quoted by Saeed Jones in How We Fight for Our Lives

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

My thoughts on love and tangerines//

Art by Alexander Zienko

A burning hill // Mitski

[Text ID: “If a mother was Sacrifice personified, then a daughter was Guilt, with no possibility of redress.”]

Susan Sontag - “Death Kit”

“New York Address” by Linda Gregg

florence + the machine — south london forever

Natalie Diaz, ‘Postcolonial Love Poem’ Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours (trans. Barrows & Macy) Auguste Rodin, Cathedral & Combinations Audre Lorde, ‘On a Night of the Full Moon’ Margaret Atwood, Power Politics James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

Adonis, from Selected Poems; “A Piece of Bahlul’s Sun” (tr. Khaled Mattawa)

Margaret Atwood, ‘Eating Snake’, Interlunar K-Ming Chang, ‘Roast duck elegy’ Anne Sexton, ‘The Civil War’ The Seventh Seal (1957), dir. Ingmar Bergman Margaret Atwood, ‘Crow Song’ Wolf Alice, ‘Silk’, My Love Is Cool Yves Olade, ‘Belovéd’

ilya kaminsky // ‘blasphemous rumours’ by depeche mode // Jesus on judgement day as depicted by michelangelo on the ceiling of the sistine chapel // war of the foxes by richard siken // note by kelsey landsgaard// angels in america by tony kushner // a sign outside a church in the southern united states // ‘the absence of god’ by rilo kiley // ‘laughing with’ by regina spektor