"I am living at the centre of a wound still fresh"

Octavio Paz, tr. by Elizabeth Bishop, The Collected Poems, 1957-1987

Fiona Apple/Shauna Niequist/Episode 7, I Am In Eskew/Tim Walker for Vogue Italia/ @mango-season /The Last Scene in the Movie, Eleanor Hsieh ( @wh0rism )/Saint Bernard, Lincoln/Working for the Knife, Mitski/Virginia Woolf/Ocean Vuong

THIS TOWN WILL SWALLOW YOU WHOLE

Yukio Mishima, Confessions of a Mask (translated by Meredith Weatherby)

Gut Symmetries, Jeanette Winterson

Phillip B. Williams, “Final Poem for My Father Misnamed in My Mouth,” published in the New Yorker // Mark Strand, “Keeping Things Whole,” via the Poetry Society of America // Rebecca Doverspike, from “Every present thing, a ghost of something,” Every Present Thing a Ghost: Poems // Artworks by Holly Warburton // W.S. Merwin, “Separation” from The Second Four Books of Poems // W.S. Merwin, from “After the Voices,” The Moon Before Morning // Siobhan Vivian, Same Difference // Audrey Niffenegger, from 'The Time Traveler's Wife' // Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories // Rosario Castellanos, tr. by Julian Palley, from Meditation on the Threshold: A Bilingual Anthology of Poetry; “Destiny”

k.c cramm

jill lepore, ‘the history of loneliness’ // mitski, ‘first love/late spring // shauna nieqiest, ‘thoughts on change, grace, and learning the hard way’ // fall out boy, ‘pavlove’ // jeanette winterson, “all I know about gertrude stein’ // fiona apple, ‘left alone’

fyodor dostoevsky, the dream of a ridiculous man // geloy concepcion // georges bataille, "esctacy" from guilty tr. bruce boone // sophocle's electra (tr. peter meineck and paul woodruff // anne sexton, from a letter to anne clarke written october 1964 // image via pinterest // callista buchen, taking care // rainer maria ralke // art by barbara kroll // haruki murakami, 1Q84

my kofi

Georges Bataille, Guilty (tr. Bruce Boone)

— Nikos Kazantzakis, from a letter to Yannis Stavridakis c. December 1917

Fariha Róisín, How to Cure a Ghost

Vincent Van Gogh

— George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

Danny Castillones Sillada, Those Sweet and Painful Memories // Artwork by @/zhihuie on twitter // V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue // Halsey, Angel on Fire // Steve Salo, Forgotten Art // Halsey, Angel on Fire // Sarah Thebarge, The Invisible Girls // Mitski, Working for the Knife // Artwork by @/bekysfairy on ig // Octavio Paz, tr. by Eliot Weinberger, from The Poems of Octavio Paz; “The Prisoner”

Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Jean-Paul Sartre (Paris, 21 February 1941)