On Growing Up

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

Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke’s Book of Hours

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

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

AUGUST: THE TRUE ENDING OF A YEAR

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

Fernando Pessoa // Franz Kafka

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

"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".

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