Fernando Pessoa // Franz Kafka

“After Language” by Chaia Heller, from My Lover Is a Woman: Contemporary Lesbian Love Poems edited by Lesléa Newman (1996).

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

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Sappho | Leonardo Bistolfi | Safet Zec | Richard Siken | Brokeback Mountain (dir. Ang Lee) | Emery Allen | Ron Hicks | Jorge Luis Borges | Holly Warburton | Richard Siken | Joseph Lorusso

Artist Anastasia Trusova explores the fields of Europe with her landscape paintings, which are overflowing with intense colors.

Lost Girlhood and the Photography of Justine Kurland

Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte / “Forest”, Justine Kurland / “Touch Up”, Mother Mother / “Candy Toss,” Justine Kurland / bunnyhauntingthedollshouse / “Poison Ivy”, Justine Kurland / “seven”, Taylor Swift / “Kung Fu Fighters”, Justine Kurland

on being her friend

“funeral”, phoebe bridgers / “pink skies”, lany / “jean and susan”, john bratby / “a summer’s tale”, dir. éric rohmer / “cupid’s chokehold / breakfast in america”, gym class heroes / untitled, @doriantomybasil / “piglet’s big movie”, dir. francis glebas / “by means which have never yet been tried” (orphan black: season two, episode ten), dir. john fawcett.

Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke’s Book of Hours

Celebrating Childhood, Adonis

"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".

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