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Vincent van Gogh, Ever Yours: The Essential Letters / Monika Marchewka — "Longing" (oil on canvas, 2023) / Mary Oliver, from The Gardener / Jenny Holzer / Love and Goodbye, Rala Choi / 日下 明 - Akira Kusaka / Natalie Wee, Least of all
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Sweet Springtime Is Here. E.E. Cummings "when faces called flowers float out of the ground" (1955) / Suzaku (dir. Naomi Kawase) 1997 / Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle / Flowers in the Mountain (Hana no yama) from Ehagaki sekai / Sorrow Is Not My Name, Ross Gay / Pyunggang Botanical Garden (평강식물원) / Easter, Emily Pauline Johnson / Sunflowers, c. 1982. Andrew Wyeth. / E.E. Cummings "when faces called flowers float out of the ground" (1955)
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fatima aamer bilal, excerpt from moony moonless sky’s ‘i am tired of making a religion out of my suffering’. / Wilhelm Sasnal  -  Untitled   (oil on canvas, 2017) / Amy Hempel, Cloudland / Malcolm T. Liepke (b.1953) American. / Lucille Clifton, from The Book of Light; “Climbing” / Lee Song, Four Meditations (2020), Oil on Canvas / Elena Ferrante, from Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein)
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mirroredroads · 11 days
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in your own words... who are you? no one at all. Miss Ruby Williams (1928-2022) "Untitled" / Kaveh Akbar, "Calling a Wolf a Wolf" / Hearts of Darkness (1991) dir. Eleanor Coppola, George Hickenlooper, Fax Bahr / Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own (1929) / @haleyincarnate 's collage / Sophocles, Elektra, trans. Anne Carson [1123-1140]
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Mark Wang // When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, Chen Chen / Neither is there anyone - Simon Bang , 2020-21. Danish, b. 1960. Acrylic on canvas , 95 x 54 cm. / Nikki Giovanni,The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998 / Chris Cyprus, Northern Lights #226, Oil on canvas / Gabriela Mistral, Selected Prose and Prose-Poems / The Thing Is by Ellen Bass
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in your own words, who are you?
i just saw this...i haven't been logged in here in a bit.
uhhhhh.....a mess. a lovely mess, but still a mess. imperfect, sometimes crass sometimes even rude. but mostly i want to be kind, to myself first and then by extension...to others.
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to live, even when it feels unbearable. | Evelyn Waugh, from Brideshead Revisited (1945) / The White Book (Le Livre Blanc) by Jean Cocteau, 1930 / Mieko Kawakami, Heaven / Insomnia, Mark Andres, acrylic on canvas, 2021 / Florence Welch, from Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry; “Maybe it would be fun” / Aleksandra Waliszewska / El Sur (Víctor Erice, 1983) / Deer On the Side of the American Highway by Devin Kelly / neil hilborn, numbered days / Sun on the horizon (Naomi Kawase, 1996) / Blythe Baird, from If My Body Could Speak; “Eat”
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sometimes to get better we have to get angry
kara walker, "untitled," 2016, ink on paper / anger I’m good at / David Shrigley / regarding the röttgen pietà, elle emerson / David Shrigley, untitled, 2000 / paramore - interlude: i’m not angry anymore
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generational anger. Tongues Untied (Marlon Riggs, 1989) / The Noise Must Become Music by Fumi Nakamura / Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides, Anne Carson / The House with the Black Door by James Hutton / Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, Jeanette Winterson
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on reconnecting with one's self. Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us / Isao Takahata's Only Yesterday (1991) / Anais Nin, Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1939-1947 / @sha963 / Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous / Untitled (2022), Sung Hwa Kim, soft pastels and acrylic on paper / Better in the Morning, Birdtalker / Untitled (2022), Sung Hwa Kim, soft pastels and acrylic on paper / Jenn Givhan, from “The Decision”
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on wanting what you cannot have
Gemma Troy, Heart Lines. / Chunking Express (1994) dir. Wong Kar-wai / Washing Machine Heart (2018) Mitski / silhouette, park slope, Brooklyn @joelzimmer / Sylvia Plath, Poppies in July / Lossapardo / Clarice Lispector, Àgua Viva
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it's enough that you're alive. unknown. / Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, Rien ne va plus / ai weiwei: never sorry / Princess Mononoke. Hayao Miyazaki. / Lyrics are Cough It Out by The Front Bottoms. Art Here. / The Orange by Wendy Cope. / Sophia Joan Short
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is it loneliness or solitude?
Jaakko Pallasvuo / Euripides, tr. by Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripidesm / scarlet. Holly Warburton. / Natalie Díaz, from "American Arithmetic", Postcolonial Love Poem / dog on the hill. Holly Warburton. / Jenny Slate, On Love, Loneliness, & Giant Dogs / evening sketch. Holly Warburton. / Natalie Díaz, from "American Arithmetic", Postcolonial Love Poem.
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David Shrigley, from Instagram. / How Many Blankets are in the World? saintseneca / David Shrigley, from Instagram. / Carol Ann Duffy, from The World’s Wife; “Medusa” / Listen, Little Man! Wilhelm Reich / Natalie Díaz, from “Isn't the Air Also a Body, Moving?”, Postcolonial Love Poem
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mirroredroads · 2 years
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Alison Kronstadt, Bred In Captivity / Icarus, 1970 - ADGER COWANS / Natalie Diaz, from Grief Work/ Escape I, 2018 by Rumi Zsófi / Franz Wright, from God's Silence; "East Boston, 1996" / :> from @mm-mina / from @averyluckyclover post found here.
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we still have the moon.
Enomoto Seifu-Jo, tr. by Kenneth Rexroth, from Written on the Sky; Poems from the Japanese / Tomoharu Okamura SUI-GETSU Japanese paper, Metallic foil, Mineral pigments, Pigment 2017 / Emily Skaja, from Brute: Poems; “No, I do not want to connect with you on Linkedin” / Still falls the rain, Daichi Takagi / Adonis, ‘Beginnings of the Body, Ends of the Sea’ / Winter night in the Netherlands -  Stefan  Bleekrode , 2018. / e.e. cummings, from “the moon looked into my window” (excerpt from Is 5), Complete Poems: 1904-1962 / Golden House Nocturne   -  Christopher Burk / The Door, Margaret Atwood / Lois Dodd, New Moon Through the Trees. 2015 /
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ode to bad dads
Fuck you, I just hate that you make me feel so small / safia elhillo -  home is not a country; “haitham” / Sometimes I think this anger will eat me alive. / Sam Fender - Seventeen going under
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