i carry your heart

Yakov Khomich

From the series "Girl in the blue dress", 2024

four reads for #4 of this year.. apt. putting word counts this time for fun and reading time planning please read these (mind the cw) <3

auspicium by diana dima (2.2k) "there has always been a sparrow inside me." what if we all had a bird inside of us that flies away when we die. very quietly devastating portrayal of grief

stranger seas than these by l. chan (4k) - "it is two days since our original projected mission end date. we are running out of oxygen and we are trapped in the throat of a god." a deep sea diver on a mission stuck in a submersible in the corpse of an alien godwhale with a nun and a scientist.. thematically sooo gorgeous, the whalesong scenes were BLINDING <3

immigrant girl from the end of the world by hannah yang (4.1k) - your family escapes the apocalypse by time travel back to 2004 but in a pact with your best friend (who you are in love with), you don't take the memory modification pill so you can find her again in the futurepast..

bride / butcher / doe by lowry poletti (7.8k) - a butcher entrapped in a life making her wealthy boss young and immortal through deer serum; so obsessed with the contrasting elements in this setting.. the deeply unsettling & mystical deer imagery, the texting and EDM (the scene in her bedroom!!!), the violence in the body horror and gore, the toxic exploitative erotic power dynamics. lowry poletti i will be reading more of your work for sure

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I swear to you my wife collapsed in my arms and lost consciousness in front of me, and I could do nothing to stop what was happening. I will not forgive myself or anyone who sees this plea and ignores it while my wife is fading before my eyes. Her body is collapsing, her pain is growing, and I am completely helpless in the face of her suffering.

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Hello, my name is Mahmoud from Gaza. I have four children... Since October 7th, everything has been destroyed. Our house was bombed and my children, Rital and Lian, were injured. She is sick with nerves and needs treatment. Also, my wife was injured in the spine and needs treatment abroad...

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Above is Mahmoud's wife, Nour, and their children, Rital, Layan and Mohammed who were quickly evacuated to Turkey, after their home was bombed and all sustained injuries. Unfortunately, Nour's brother-in-law died from his injuries and to add insult to injury, Mahmoud was forcibly returned to Gaza by Israeli soldiers and is now separated from his wife and children.

In order to cover medical costs and help Mahmoud reunite with his family, they need to raise £14,000, so far they have raised £5,692, which isn't even half of the cost they all need to live.

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There’s something between us [...]  a sort of pull. Something you always do to me and I to you⁠—

⁠— F. Scott Fitzgerald, from 'Presumption'

I am stretched like a bow with your pull.

⁠— Rumi, The Forbidden Rumi: The Suppressed Poems of Rumi on Love, Heresy, and Intoxication; from ‘Give Up Yourself’, tr. Will Johnson and Nevit Ergin

Something of you still taut / still tugs still pulls, / a rope that trembled / hummed between us.

⁠— Sandra Cisneros, Loose Woman; from 'Vino Tinto'

I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you—especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame.

⁠— Charlotte Brontë, from ‘Jane Eyre’

There was a silence between them, and a strange tension of hostility. They always kept a gap, a distance between them, they wanted always to be free each of the other. Yet there was a curious heart-straining towards each other.

⁠— D. H. Lawrence, from 'Women in Love'

I could feel the inevitable magnetic polar forces in us, and the tidal blood beat loud, Loud, roaring in my ears, slowing and rhythmic.

⁠— Sylvia Plath, from ‘The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath’ ⁠— 15th May 1952

The tides inside your heart still pull me towards you.

⁠— Richard Jackson, from 'After All This', published in 'Salt Hill 22'

By then I was used to silence. / Though something stretched between us / like a whisper, like a rope:

⁠— Margaret Atwood, Interlunar; from ‘Orpheus (1)’

⁠— what still deepens pulls us back together.

— Caitríona O’Reilly, The Nowhere Birds; from ‘Possession’

We're connected by a thread / If we're ever far apart / I'll still feel the pull of you

Agnes Pelton (American painter) 1881 - 1961

Departure, 1952

oil on canvas private collection of Mike Stoller and Corky Hale Stoller