Wishing For Birds, Elisabeth Hewer

I like art that depicts women not posing seductively or gracefully but simply existing as human beings.

Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke’s Book of Hours

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

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on love and being haunted

to be haunted - jessie lynn mcmains / haunting of hill house / @catilinas / phoebe bridgers album art / pope alexander - crywank / @martyrdomism / ocean vuong / philip larkin

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, Book of Hours: Love Poems to God; from ‘Gott spricht zu jedem nur, eh er ihn macht’, tr. Anita Barrows & Joanna Macy

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

Forugh Farrokhzad, tr. by Sholeh Wolpé, from “Captive”, Sin

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