Fernando Pessoa, A Little Larger Than The Entire Universe: Selected Poems

“The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.”

— Terry Pratchett

obsessed with the opposite of the childhood friends trope. what if we were just some guys meeting for the first time with like. no significance

on growing up

franz wright god's silence: "father roger goes for a walk" \\ @ritikajyala the flesh i burned (visualiser) \\ christoffer relander first snow \\ @goodbyevitamin big star fizzing (at the turn of a new month) \\ deborah stevenson once upon a time \\ pink floyd childhood's end

kofi

this gets me every time.

the song of achilles, madeline miller

paramore, “interlude: i’m not angry anymore” / martha gellhorn, selected letters / adonis, selected poems; “rage” (tr. khaled mattawa) / anne carson, plainwater: essays and poetry / carole maso, the art lover / jade bird, “furious” / carmen maria machado, in the dream house

“There is nothing prettier than a city at 5 AM with its empty streets and cold wind.”

—

meeting someone you loved in a different life

1. tim seibles | 2. fortesa latifi | 3. yehuda amichai | 4. ocean vuong | 5.  benjamin alire sáenz | 6. charlotte brontë | 7. cynthia miller | 8. marie howe | 9. rainer maria rilke | 10. mary oliver 

"You stand red-handed. You want to wash yourself in earth, in rocks and grass

What are you supposed to do with all this loss?"

— trying to wash the guilt away

1. franz kafka, letters to milena 2. album art for el pintor by interpol 3. margaret atwood, morning in the burned house 4. somto ihezue, all the stones that built me 5. jihoon yang, "blue rain", 2020 6. matthew nienow, lupa 7. succession 2x01 8. mitski, "humpty" 9. william shakespeare, macbeth, 2.2.78-81 10. alfred stevens, "lady macbeth".

Wishing for Birds, Elisabeth Hewer