Siken, Four Proofs

my mom took this nearly 10 years ago. she was outside and just happened to have her camera when some newlyweds went by on a bicycle for two

— Chen Chen, from When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities; “Elegy” (via lunamonchtuna)

calling in to work sick with a “weird dream”

Alice Notley, "The Poetry of Everyday Life" (1988)

when i have a crush i dont kick my feet or twirl my hair instead i am in my kitchen at 3am pacing in circles with my hands clasped behind my back like a middle-aged divorced detective haunted by a cold case he just cant crack

Liquid nitrogen experiments on roses

I had an extended conversation with a swallowtail butterfly the other day and it told me—in not so many words—that it had a number of intensely violent sexual fantasies as a caterpillar, and that it no longer could relate to having had them, and that this discontinuity was like the itch of molting without anything to molt. Having never molted before, I couldn't relate

The Source of Life (2024) by Clayshaper — bases on “The Eclipse of the Sun in Venice” (circa 1842) by Ippolito Caffi

© Vivian Maier | Chicago 1978 | The Independent Photographer