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“And this dead thing, this loathsome black impurity, This horror that I shrink from — is my soul.”
Psyche, Zinaida Gippius, tr. Babette Deutsch
from why poetry can be hard for most people by dorothea lasky, published in rome
[Text ID: why poetry can be hard for most people. because speaking to the dead is not something you want to do. /End ID]
—Li-Young Lee, from This Room and Everything In It
“ESTRAGON: All the dead voices. VLADIMIR: They make a noise like wings. ESTRAGON: Like leaves.”
— Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot, 1952
Alejandra Pizarnik, tr. by Yvette Siegert, from Extracting The Stone of Madness: Poems 1962-1972; “Written in the twilight”
black telephone - richard siken
In the Woods Somewhere, Hozier / Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo / Katelin Yayo / In Every Poem You Can Hear Muffled Screams, Gaia Rajan / The Field of Dead Girls, Cassandra de Alba / Ophelia, John Everett Millais / Anna, Possession (1981), Claire C. Holland / The Fortune Teller to the Woodsman, Maggie Smith / Dead Girl in the Pool, Girl in Red / Final Girl, CHVRCHES / Smother, Daughter
Sylvia Plath, from The Collected Poems, “Widow”
—Albert Camus, The Stranger.
andrew wyeth + franz kafka / the castle
black telephone - richard siken
Robert Jordan
Gentle Virgin of Death, come.
Janet Fitch, from 'Chimes of a Lost Cathedral'
Vanilla Sky (2001), written by Cameron Crowe
