I twist like a sunflower at the sound of your voice.
— Kait Rokowski, from "The Civil Guillotine" in So Much For the Mercy Kill
self portrait against bed wallpaper by Richard Siken
ask polly
Wrong Norma, Anne Carson
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.
Mary Oliver, from “To Begin With, the Sweet Grass”, Devotions
Mary Oliver, from "Peonies"
When Allah inspires your tongue to ask, know that He wants to give.
Ibn Ataallah (rahimullah)
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
"Close your eyes", Paruyr Sevak (translated by metamorphesque)
Cast bronze (Living, 1980–82) & cast aluminium (Survival, 1983–85) from the Plaques series by Jenny Holzer