"You Stand Red-handed. You Want To Wash Yourself In Earth, In Rocks And Grass

AUGUST: THE TRUE ENDING OF A YEAR

unknown / @nobodysflower / paul d'amato / mary oliver / @gaycommunist / justine kurland / @sioltach / alida nugent / raymond carver

Wishing for Birds, Elisabeth Hewer

this gets me every time.

the song of achilles, madeline miller

“So, if you are too tired to speak, sit next to me because I, too, am fluent in silence.”

— R. Arnold

THE PROBLEM WITH WANTING

Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me / Hozier, Cherry Wine / Stephanie Garber, Legandary / Anna Akhmatova, The Guest / Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch / Anaïs Nin, The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin / Marissa Meyer, Scarlet / Cassandra Clare, City of Glass / Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising / Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

Seb bowing to fans in a parking lot.

source: livia_soos on insta

when you love so much you let it consume you

richard siken - litany in which certain things are crossed out / robert mapplethorpe - white gauze / hsin wang - de-selfing series / benjamin alire saenz - aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe / florence and the machine - moderation / hillary mantel - wolf hall / marina abramović and ulay - rest energy / placebo - every you every me / halsey - graveyard / florence and the machine - hardest of hearts / @cvatik / hole - violet / brooke didonato / halsey - whispers (iichliwp website) / richard siken - planet of love / unknown / florence welch - body of water

“I would like to step out of my heart and go walking beneath the enormous sky.”

— The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, ‘Lament’ tr. Stephen Mitchell

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

Celebrating Childhood, Adonis