— Anna Akhmatova, The Guest

hunted by the narrative

hares on the mountain, traditional folk song // art by jen mazza

sparrow for a heart, abigal lappell // art by barbara bokoto-tomala

newcastle, traditional folk song // artist unknown

if i was a painter, lisa o'neill // art by claudia barbu

ashamed, deer tick // art by nicolas samori

i wish my baby was born, traditional folk song // artist unknown

hard wired, shakey graves // art by miles johnston

How much can you change and get away with it, before you turn into someone else, before it's some kind of murder?

The Complete Poems; “The Sickness Unto Death”, Anne Sexton//Jean Baudrillard//Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems, Dulce María Loynaz//Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky//Alex Venezia//La Femme de trente ans, Honoré de Balzac//War of the foxes, Richard Siken

“I suffer because of myself. It is my own soul all the time that is bothering me.”

— Henry Miller, from a letter to Anaïs Nin featured in A Literate Passion: Letters Of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller (1932 - 1953)

“And maybe home isn’t where it used to be. And maybe that’s okay. We build our own houses as we grow older and they don’t always have four walls.”

— (via c0ntemplations)

start here, caitlyn siehl // untitled, fortesa latifi // rien ne va plus, margarita karapanau (trans. karen emmerich) // black iris, leah raeder // the thorn merchant, yusuf komunyakaa // monster movie, nicola maye goldberg // a key to common lethal fungi, marge piercy // give me a god i can relate to, blythe baird // crimson peak, dir. guillermo del torro (2014) // the house of hades, rick riordan.

what i could never confess without some bravado by emily palermo // a song for a lover of long time ago - bon lver // lies about sea creatures by ada limón //cassandra: a novel and four essays by christa wolf // the next time we talk on facebook by clementine von radics // i bet on losing dogs - mitski // don’t know

Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, This Is How You Lose the Time War

i want to go home. i will always want to go home. even when i am at home i want to go home. but i’m not really thinking of a place, it’s more that feeling of everything finally being over, of seeing the light in the windows of your house on a cold night, of being safe, the relief of leaving a party you’re not enjoying, like when you felt sick at school and they sent you home, or when you got upset at a sleepover and they called your parents. i want my mam to come get me. i want to go home.

The Indigo Spell, Richelle Mead

WHAT COULD YOU POSSIBLY KILL, THAT YOU LOVED SO MUCH THAT IT WOULD MAKE THE SUN RISE AGAIN?

Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous  /  Rumi  /  George R.R. Martin, Game of Thrones  /  CNS, We are beauty and fire; ash we may be, but we are stronger than them.  /  Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch  /  Rina Sawayama, Dynasty  /  Benjamin West, Death on the Pale Horse (1817)  /  Ingeborg Bachmann, Malina  /  Eugenio Montale, The Storm  /   Succession HBO Opening Credits  /  Bernard Knox, Introduction to The Iliad  /  Into the Badlands AMC  /  Succession HBO S01E08 “Prague”  /  c.d., You do, you know. You deserve peace.  /  Kahlil Gibran, Defeat