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Helen Oyeyemi, from “White Is for Witching”  

John Banville, The Sea 

[Text ID: “The past beats inside me like a second heart.”]

A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments, Roland Barthes

Alicia Ostriker, from The Imaginary Lover: Poems; “25th Year of Marriage, It Goes On,”

John Watkiss - Birth of Free Will

Prelude, Brynne Rebele-Henry

richard siken, the torn-up road

Simone Weil, Waiting for God

Nora Iuga, Modern Poetry in Translation: One Thousand Suns; from 'sam, did you pay the water bill, you kept asking', tr. Diana Manole & Adam J. Sorkin

HERE WE ARE, IN THE OUROBOROS, DOING IT AGAIN. HOPING SOME DAY THIS DANMED CYCLE ENDS.

Song of Songs, Sylvie Baumgartel

Hera Lindsay Bird // F. Scott Fitzgerald // Sarah Kane // unknown // Fleur Jaeggy // Jeanette Winterson // Leopold von Sacher-Masoch // Joan Tierney // Kurt Cobain // The Front Bottoms

my favorite ship dynamic is betrayal. not when they betray each other but when one or both of them turn against their cause, their principles and/or loved ones for the other. bonus points if the person they're abandoning everything for didn't remotely expect it. ultimate declaration of love. "you mean more to me than everything i ever believed in. i am more loyal to you than my conscience. i love you more than the thing i would die for."

— Anna Akhmatova, The Guest

[text ID: “What do you want?” I asked. / “To be with you in hell,” he said.]

George Seferis, tr. by Edmund Keeley & Philip Sherrard from, “Stratis Thalassinos among the Agapanthi.”

reasons for staying, ocean vuong / 'the ascension', sufjan stevens / the sparrow, mary doria russell

Edna St. Vincent Millay, Collected Poems

desire is suffering

Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016; ‘Dream Reveals in Neon the Great Addictions, Frank Bidart ( @wahabibi ) | Dante and Virgil in Hell, William-Adolphe Bouguereau | Vestiges, Ángel García | Blasphemia, Eliran Kantor | So We Must Meet Apart, Jennifer S. Cheng ( @yoursoethereal ) | Prigione di Lacrime, Roberto Ferri | Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 2, 1928-9; Sunday, November 4th, Simone de Beauvoir ( @theoptia ) | Ludwig Drahosch | War of the Foxes, Richard Siken ( @elfreys )