EAT YOU UP WHOLE.

T. S. Eliot, from Selected Poems & Plays: 1909 - 1950; “Fragment of an Agon,”

requested by @spokenitalics

Pull (2015), oil painting on wood, 39.4” x 31.5” x 2”

In a veil of great surprises, I wonder, did you love me at all?

The Lure (Córki dancingu) 2015, dir. Agnieszka Smoczyńska

Adrienne Rich, Toward the Solstice

Zaid Shlah, from “Thirty-Three Beads on a String,” Inclined to Speak: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Poetry

Keep your distance, okay? Step number one: you’re gonna take the gun off line, right? Off line, right? Push hard. All right, now step two: go for that wrist, all right? Get control. Underneath. Go for the joint. Joints are weakest. Use your legs, get underneath and twist.

Enrique Lihn, tr. by Jonathan Cohen, from The Dark Room: Poems; “The Dark Room,” 

Emily Brontë, from The Complete Poems of Emily Brontë; The Philosopher. 

Medium: oil,canvas

Nika Turbina, quoted in “Why Did the lives of Russian Child Prodigies End So Tragically?,”

Nell Dorr (1893–1988)  [Light abstraction photogram], ca. 1950s–60s  Gelatin silver print Gift of the Estate of Nell Dorr

current mood: boris pasternak in letters

Emil Cioran (1911-1985), from “Tears and Saints” (1937), translated from the Romanian by Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston

Marketa Lazarová (1967)