the light switch is a house's clit

today I took pictures of the inside of an Ox’s heart … It was bigger than my head 

“i love gross, disgust me please” and he didnt even let her fucking eat him. god. i hate men

Carl Phillips, from “Civilization”, Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020

scans of a couple old ones

a hungry audience

[The] idea of temporal deformation is put to great use in Lake Mungo…Rather than living in a linear, temporal progression, one where past, present, and future are distinct and sequential, Alice senses an impending collapse of this sequential ordering or, more frightening, an intimation that such an order does not exist at all. If “something bad” has already taken place in the future and is trying to “reach” us in the present, what can our idea of past-present-future even mean?

While ghosts usually come from the past to haunt the present and keep past traumas or wrongs alive, Alice’s ghost proceeds from the future, serves as a kind of warning or omen of something bad to come…This specter appears in a time in which it does “not belong” and forces together that which should be kept apart: past and future come together and inhabit the same temporality as two different versions of Alice’s body—one alive, one drowned—confront each other in a way that collapses meaning in Alice’s life and precipitates her “untimely” death. After her passing, Alice reverts to the more typical ghostly behavior of refusing to go away and of perpetually haunting her parents’ home and the lake where she drowned. While both dead and alive, Alice seems to have no future.

—Adam R. Beach, Ghostly Time in ‘Lake Mungo’

anna akhmatova tr. by judith hemschemeyer, “poem without a hero” (1990) // harrison allen, “report of an autopsy on the bodies of chang and eng bunker; commonly known as the siamese twins” (1875)

The Atrocity Exhibition by Jonathan Weiss.

The Velveteen Rabbit as quoted in Beginners (2011)

Textile Art by Raija Jokinen