the vocabulary of loss is the dictionary
Consecrated sword presented by Pope Innocent XI to John III Sobieski - 'Lion of Lechistan' (1675)
aBurningHill (2022)
im not being funny but artistry will save your life. music, painting, pottery, writing, carving, weaving, the act of creating will save you.
BONES AND ALL 2022, dir. Luca Guadagnino
2023: go to the limits of your longing, let everything happen to you: beauty and terror, just keep going, no feeling is final
"You can love a monster, it can even love you back, but that doesn't change its nature."
unknown / Mitski Cop Car / Catherynne M. Valente The Bread We Eat in Dreams / Jonny Bolduc Harsh Light / Margaret Atwood / Sylvia Plath Poem for a Birthday: Who / Anne Sexton Hansel and Gretel "The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton" / @/thymoss (tumblr) / unknown
i. unknown [ "I tip my head like a dog at the window. The outside world is so interesting, and I am not a part of it; I'm just witnessing." ]
ii. Mitski Cop Car [ "I get mean when I'm nervous like a bad dog / I get mean when I'm nervous like a bad dog ]
iii. Catherynne M. Valente The Bread We Eat in Dreams [ "I said: I could be a wolf for you. I could put my teeth on your throat. I could growl. I could eat you whole. I could wait for you in the dark. I could howl against your hair. ]
iv. Jonny Bolduc Harsh Light [ medical diagram of a dog. "Let the harsh light warm you / Let the harsh wind carry you away ]
v. Margaret Atwood [ "you dangle on the leash of your own longing; / your need grows teeth ]
vi. Sylvia Plath Poem for a Birthday: Who [ "Eaten or rotten. I am all mouth." ]
vii. Anne Sexton Hansel and Gretel [ I want to bite, / I want to chew, / I will eat you up. ]
viii. @/thymoss (tumblr) [ sketch of an animal with teeth surrounding the outside of its snout pointing away from it. "I will remove my teeth, for I want to remain kind despite my anger" ]
ix. unknown [ "I love you like a rotten dog, / I love you like my canines are falling out of my gums / Like a monster, like a beast / Like something not worth loving back" ]
Creatures of the night
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