“Love me, Love me, I cried to the rocks and the trees …” ― Stevie Smith
1. sylvia plath | 2. andrew wyeth | 3. anaïs nin | 4. ron hicks | 5. jenny slate | 6. hope ganglof | 7. f. scott fitzgerald | 8. peter mcardle | 9. richard siken | 10. ron hicks | 11. natalie wee | 12. peter mcardle | 13. emily palermo
[text ID: This is the map of my heart, the landscape after cruelty which is, of course, a garden, which is a tenderness, which is a room, a lover saying Hold me tight, it’s getting cold. /end ID]
1. Meg Day 2. Haruki Murakami 3. Edouard Labrosse 4. Rainer Maria Rilke 5. Ron Hicks 6. Virginia Woolf 7. Joan Didion 8. Ron Hicks 9. Sylvia Plath 10. Anne Magill 11. Franz Kafka 12. Peter Wever 13. Vi Khi Nao 14. Peter Wever 15. Anna Akhmatova
The Waves by Virginia Woolf | art by Holly Warburton | Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh | art by Holly Warburton
Rick Anderson, from “The Ghosts Are Laughing”
Text ID: Inevitably I will learn / —I am learning— / that being alone, / being lonely always, / being nothing forevermore / is a burden far greater / than I have ever known / and I cannot bear it.
averno, louise glück / a ghost story (2017), dir. david lowery / the haunting of hill house (2017), dir. mike flannagan / MAG066 / undertale (2015), dev. toby fox / as consciousness is harnessed to flesh, susan sontag / MAG186 / boy in pen and ink, clarice lispector
“Loneliness is like starvation: you don’t realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.”
— Joyce Carol Oates, Faithless
“Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.”
— W. S. Merwin, “Separation”, from The Second Four Books of Poems
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