Louise Glück

T. S. Eliot — The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Jane Hirshfield, Assay Only Glimpsable for an Instant

Olivia Laing, The Lonely City

May Swenson // https://www.instagram.com/sunlightafterdark/?hl=en

you know that character you love so much? (you know – the one from that movie you always watch when you’re feeling sad the one from that show you’ve seen so many times you can quote the episodes the one from that book or comic you’ve read more times than you can count) think about how much you resonate with them how they’re like a mirror image to the way you see yourself how they empathize with pieces of your soul in ways that a real life human cannot how they feel like a representation of you you see so much of yourself in them and you love them so much so why can’t you love you too?  if you can find it in you  to look past their flaws  and see gold shining in their cracks maybe you can do the same for yourself after all if your favorite character is a reflection of you, and you love them more than words can say maybe its possible for you to love you too

(cc, 2020)

Clarice Lispector, tr. by Stefan Tobler, from Água Viva

annihilation (2018) dir. alex garland + annihilation by jeff vandermeer // hozier, “in a week (ft. karen cowley)” // taylor swift, “the lakes” // fiona apple, “heavy balloon” // littlestpersimmon - “reclamation” // meganluddyillustration - “So long, we’d become the flowers” // hermann hesse, “farm,” from wanderings // czeslaw milosz, “longing” // ada limón, “mowing,” from bright dead things // mary oliver, “sleeping in the forest” // conceptualsolitude

losing a friend (for the one that got away) 1/3

part 2 , part 3

@frenchtoastlesbian //personalmessage.blogspot.com // @linguinereid // trista mateer // unknown // richard siken // ocean vuong “on earth we’re briefly gorgeous”// unknown // unknown

love as a religion

jacob from the bible, jake wesley rogers / red, white, & royal blue by casey mcquiston / religion (u can lay your hands on me), shura / soul like thunder by sophia elaine hanson / psyche revived by cupid’s kiss, antonio canova / don’t blame me, taylor swift / lovin’ is bible, the aces / from eden, hozier / coming down, halsey / heaven is a place on earth, belinda carlisle / colors, halsey / bedroom hymns, florence + the machine / 02x04 fleabag / sanctuary, aly & aj / genesis, dua lipa / like a prayer, madonna / young god, halsey / pussy is god, king princess / church, fall out boy / the raven king by maggie stiefvater