“Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling”
—Oscar Wilde
Evelyn Waugh, from Brideshead Revisited (1945)
—Percy Bysshe Shelley, taken from Upstream by Mary Oliver
musings on June
1.anne sexton (“the truth the dead know”), 2. anne sexton (“suicide note poem”), 3. mary oliver (“august”), 4. l.m. montgomery (“anne of the island”), 5. morgan parker (“the black saint & the sinner lady & the dead & the truth”), 6. found poems: sylvia plath / peter k. steinberg (“percy key among the narcissi”) artwork by hugo grenville
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earning it
halloween, phoebe bridgers | emily palermo | mommy issues: unlearning inherited pain, joan tierney | the last days of judas iscariot, stephen adly guirgis | nobody, mitski | georges bataille | love as an act of merciful conquer, silas denver melvin | gilead, marilynne robinson | giovanni’s room, james baldwin
Photography by Xuebing Du
Instagram: xuebing.du
I do not want to be a person. I want to be unbearable.
1. anne carson | 2. nick alm | 3. ocean vuong | 4. nick alm | 5. franz kafka | 6. nick alm | 7. emil ferris | 8. nick alm | 9. clarice lispector | 10. nick alm | 11. mary shelley | 12. nick alm | 13. sandra cisneros
Ablaze: Very brightly coloured or lighted.
Aesthetic: Pleasing in appearance.
Ageless: Timeless, eternal.
Angelic: Beautiful and pure.
Astrophysical: Related to space.
Brilliant: Glittering, very bright.
Celestial: Belonging or relating to heaven.
Ethereal: Unworldly, heavenly.
Evanescent: Ephemeral and transitory.
Glisten: Sparkling.
Gloomy: Dismally and depressingly dark
Heavenly: Beatific, delightful.
Lifeless: Inanimate.
Luminous: Clear, enlightening.
Lonely: Solitary.
Mysterious: Mystical, deep and obscur.
Ominous: Sinister and menacing.
Otherworldly: Unearthly.
flowery tea ♡