tender as the rot

INGYDAR – ADRIANNE LENKER

[ID: The corruption begins with the mouth, / the tongue, the wanting. / The first poem in the world / is I want to eat.]

y'all are sleeping on him LOOOOOOOK >:(

gloomy weather. x

[Text ID: “I feel occasionally my skull will crack, fatigue is continuous ⏤ I only go from less exhausted to more exhausted and back again.”]

— Sylvia Plath, "The Bell Jar"

ocean vuong, "someday i'll love" / sam fender, "seventeen going under" / the front bottoms, "father" / satanay, tumblr / clementine von radics / agustín gómez-arcos, "the carnivorous lamb" / ?

And When Margaret Atwood said, "you long to be bandaged before you have been cut."

And when Chelsea Hodson said, "suffering feels religious if you do it right."

deep in the willow – knocked loose

A Primer For the Small Weird Loves, Richard Siken | The Embrace II, Ron Hicks | Henry and June: From “A Journal of Love,” The Unexpurgated Diary (1931-1932) of Anaïs Nin, Henry Miller (@theoptia) | the night belongs to lovers, Ilaria Ratti | Dark. Sweet.: New & Selected Poems, Linda Hogan (@feral-ballad) | Intimacy, Angelica Alzona | Shame is an Ocean I Swim Across, Mary Lambert (@synbeam) | The Kiss, Edvard Munch | Summer Morn in New Hampshire, Claude McKay

Joe Newman in an interview with Interview Magazine

Kate Chopin, from The Awakening

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Gallant, V. E. Schwab

— Maya Angelou, “Starvation” from The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou