◇♤▪︎☆museum of heartbreaks☆~°

8 January, 1926 The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (1924-1941)

Anaïs Nin

Wale Ayinla, from “Portrait of a Boy with Grief”

Sally Wen Mao, from “Opera Sextronique”, Oculus

the night shift

and he washes death down. It sparkles in his throat.”]

Joy Sullivan, from Instructions for Traveling West: Poems; “Of Wildflowers”

— Megan Fernandes, “Do You Sell Dignity Here?” from I Do Everything I’m Told

Mary Oliver, "The Moths" in Dream Work

-Anne Carson, ‘Grief Lessons: Four Plays By Euripides’

Anaïs Nin, The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1923–1927

Anthony Thomas Lombardi, from "self-portrait as murmuration"

think about how there’s no such thing as a complete touch—only the illusion of it… think about how you’re moved and affected and scarred and scratched and bruised and kissed and bitten by a mere illusion… think about how you’re saved from the real thing… think about how you’re bereaved of the real thing