I Twist Like A Sunflower At The Sound Of Your Voice.

I twist like a sunflower at the sound of your voice.

— Kait Rokowski, from "The Civil Guillotine" in So Much For the Mercy Kill

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1 month ago
Self Portrait Against Bed Wallpaper By Richard Siken
Self Portrait Against Bed Wallpaper By Richard Siken

self portrait against bed wallpaper by Richard Siken

1 month ago
Ask Polly
Ask Polly

ask polly

3 weeks ago
[ID: So there went my own heart walking towards its own / death, every millennium, every hour closer. I could not / bear this.]

Wrong Norma, Anne Carson

1 year ago

do it scared do it stupid do it badly whatever it is that's worth doing, that's worth anything at all, we do it. be it scared be it stupid be it badly. the sincerity remains the same.

2 months ago
Mary Oliver, From “To Begin With, The Sweet Grass”, Devotions

Mary Oliver, from “To Begin With, the Sweet Grass”, Devotions

1 month ago
the peonies are getting ready to break my heart

Mary Oliver, from "Peonies"

9 months ago

When Allah inspires your tongue to ask, know that He wants to give. 

Ibn Ataallah (rahimullah)

3 months ago

donating my heavily annotated copy of house of leaves to the local library so that the person reading it gets a 5th layer of narrative to be confused by

1 year ago
text id: It happens more often than not,
That a person shoots himself in his thoughts.
Shoots the self reflected in clear water, 
in the mirror,
text id: 
Shoots the self reflected in someone else’s eyes,
And dies there and then.
But the second specimen endures –
He himself remains – we ourselves remain.
text id: And burying ourselves without mourning,
We reawaken to life. 
First, as plants and animals,
And after many centuries,
Also, with a human life strenuous and tough.
text id: And all of this lasts
An endless moment perhaps,
Maybe an everlasting week,
Or a momentary year...
text id: My God, you surely must know
How many times I've traversed this road,
Studded with sharp pebbles and thorns,
Again and again,
Barefooted.
text id: I am tired,
so tired of
Killing myself,
And even more, of reliving…
text id: Is there a need
To try the same,
Only this time
By shooting myself
In the eyes of this girl?
text id: 
Close your eyes, my beloved,
I fear with dread
That this time too, I may not perish,
But instead, tear down your eyes.
text id: Close your eyes, my beloved.

"Close your eyes", Paruyr Sevak (translated by metamorphesque)

11 months ago
Cast Bronze (Living, 1980–82) & Cast Aluminium (Survival, 1983–85) From The Plaques Series By Jenny
Cast Bronze (Living, 1980–82) & Cast Aluminium (Survival, 1983–85) From The Plaques Series By Jenny
Cast Bronze (Living, 1980–82) & Cast Aluminium (Survival, 1983–85) From The Plaques Series By Jenny
Cast Bronze (Living, 1980–82) & Cast Aluminium (Survival, 1983–85) From The Plaques Series By Jenny
Cast Bronze (Living, 1980–82) & Cast Aluminium (Survival, 1983–85) From The Plaques Series By Jenny
Cast Bronze (Living, 1980–82) & Cast Aluminium (Survival, 1983–85) From The Plaques Series By Jenny
Cast Bronze (Living, 1980–82) & Cast Aluminium (Survival, 1983–85) From The Plaques Series By Jenny
Cast Bronze (Living, 1980–82) & Cast Aluminium (Survival, 1983–85) From The Plaques Series By Jenny
Cast Bronze (Living, 1980–82) & Cast Aluminium (Survival, 1983–85) From The Plaques Series By Jenny
Cast Bronze (Living, 1980–82) & Cast Aluminium (Survival, 1983–85) From The Plaques Series By Jenny
Cast Bronze (Living, 1980–82) & Cast Aluminium (Survival, 1983–85) From The Plaques Series By Jenny
Cast Bronze (Living, 1980–82) & Cast Aluminium (Survival, 1983–85) From The Plaques Series By Jenny
Cast Bronze (Living, 1980–82) & Cast Aluminium (Survival, 1983–85) From The Plaques Series By Jenny
Cast Bronze (Living, 1980–82) & Cast Aluminium (Survival, 1983–85) From The Plaques Series By Jenny
Cast Bronze (Living, 1980–82) & Cast Aluminium (Survival, 1983–85) From The Plaques Series By Jenny
Cast Bronze (Living, 1980–82) & Cast Aluminium (Survival, 1983–85) From The Plaques Series By Jenny
Cast Bronze (Living, 1980–82) & Cast Aluminium (Survival, 1983–85) From The Plaques Series By Jenny
Cast Bronze (Living, 1980–82) & Cast Aluminium (Survival, 1983–85) From The Plaques Series By Jenny

Cast bronze (Living, 1980–82) & cast aluminium (Survival, 1983–85) from the Plaques series by Jenny Holzer

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