Honey Girl, Morgan Rogers | Dante and Virgil in Hell, William Adolphe Bouguereau | Wishbone, Richard Siken | Dante and Virgil in Hell, William Adolphe Bouguereau | The Smaller Evil, Stephanie Kuehn

richard siken interviews jane mead \ edward gorey cover art for raymond t. mcnally’s a clutch of vampires \ segovia amil death season \ josef mandl the ghost \ kathryn hunter third eye (2020) \ friedrich nietzsche beyond good and evil \ via @scaryhalloweenbitch​ \ don crewe existentialist criminology \ ?? manifestation (1903) \ ?? \ louise erdrich the king of the owls 

kofi

All About Love, bell hooks | Snow and Dirty Rain, Richard Siken

only one of you is going to make it and you’re afraid it’s going to be you, or, alternatively: you are standing by the tragic hero and it is looking rough out there-

( @lasilhouetteinbianco i did it there’s moby. whoo)

[ID: An assortment of various quotes, lyrics, and paintings from a variety of sources.

1. To love someone / is firstly to confess: I’m prepared / to be devastated by you.

2. Ismene: I can help you suffer. // Antigone: No. // Ismene: I can give you reasons not to die. //  Antigone: No.

3. And he took me by the hand. But he was still worrying. “It was wrong of you to come. You will suffer. I shall look like I was dead, and that will not be true…” I said nothing.

4. A painting of a young woman dressed in black. She stands in blank despair beside a casket in an open field. She is surrounded by a procession of numerous mourners, as smoke from a behind her rises into the air.

5. What are we staying here for? How long do you / want to sit in this house, eating your heart out?

6. You are kneeling at the water’s throne / When preparing for an ending scene / It’s important that / Swords drop like anchors / Yours will never rise again / I am watching from the cowberries, or / From your mother’s curtains, as if / Through a burial shroud, or

7. And it’s another wrong-man-dies scenario / and we keep doing it, Henry, / keep saying until we get it right… but we / always win and we never quit.

8. A painting of Orpheus and Eurydice at the entrance to Hades. Orpheus, in a toga, reaches out to catch Eurydice as she goes limp and pale, soul having returned to the Underworld. In the background a dead tree trunk can be seen.

9. I am not a fool entire / No, I know what is coming / You will bury me beneath the tree / I climbed when I was a child

10. Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, / But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

11. My throat is a beehive pitched into the river. Look! / Look how long my love can hold it’s breath.

12. A painting of Orpheus’ head floating down a river after being torn apart by the Maenads. His face is turned upward, with pale skin and long red hair. His lyre floats beside him, alongside numerous lily pads and lilies.

13. See, we’ve won again / here we are at the place where I get to beg / for it where I get to say, Please,

14. Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: you’re falling to the floor crying thinking, “I am falling to the floor crying,” but there’s an element of the ridiculous to it — you knew it would happen and, even worse, while you’re on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didn’t paint it very well.

15. “…Sleeping? Aye, toil how we may, we all sleep on the field. Sleep? Aye, and rust amidst greenness; as last years scythes flung down, and left in the half-cut swathes — Starbuck!” But blanched to a corpse’s hue with despair, the Mate had stolen away. 

16. A painting of a nude woman sitting upon her bed, hunched over with her head in her hands and legs sprawled. She appears to be weeping. Her long, dark hair, spills around her shoulders and into her lap.

17. A painting of a woman and a man embracing each other. The woman has warm skin and long red hair, which spills over and contrasts with the man’s pale, grey skin. She buries her face into his nape, and he into her arms.

18. But when she saw him in his hapless plight, / though angry at his scorn, she only grieved. End ID.]

All the things I did just so I could call you mine

1. corpus christi 2. i killed my mother (2009) dir. xavier dolan 3. The Vampire Diaries S5E16 4. Sea of love by the national 5. A primer for the small weird loves, Richard Siken 6. unknown 7. Fear of the water by SYML 8. The last days of Judas Iscariot 9. Succession S2E10 10. Cruel Summer by taylor swift 11. Jesus Christ Superstar 12. Wishbone, Richard Siken

on the unspoken gay history

Michael Lassell - Loving: A Photographic History of Men in Love 1850s–1950s - Richard Siken - Joan E. Biren - Sappho - Joan E. Biren

@ohh-deary-me

richard siken a primer for the small weird loves // holly warburton making amends // holly warburton bobby // holly warburton the red jacket

i love hard.

sandarafreedompark | rosamund hodge | venetta o. | sculpture by gian lorenzo bernini | richard siken | a softer world | anaïs nin | nicke zimov | vladimir nabokov | crimson peak, dir. guillermo del toro 

aleksandra waliszewska // yves olade // joy priest, horsepower // richard siken, wishbone

black telephone - richard siken

black telephone - richard siken

ocean vuong someday i’ll love \ kaye donachie against the mass of night \ nailone marta sketch \ agustin gómez-arcos the carnivorous lamb \ henrik uldalen \ richard siken war of the foxes (ii) \ @heavensghost \ barbara kroll \ @d0ll-part-s crossing the line \ eula bliss the pain scale \ david shelvino

On Love and Understanding

Boygenius-Bite the Hand//Richard Siken-Crush//Thich Nhat Hanh//The Journals of Sylvia Plath-Sylvia Plath//Boygenius-Bite the hand//Little Women-Greta Gerwig (dir.)//Richard Siken-Crush// @vampireapologist

you are on the floor crying, clementine von radics // happy death, albert camus the wedding dress, frederick w. elwell // dying swan, vladimir tretchikoff interview with james hall, richard siken // tired, ramon casas // the magdalene grieving, caravaggio // dirty valentine, richard siken // first love / late spring, mitski // exhausted, andre kohn

you are on the floor crying, clementine von radics // happy death, albert camus the wedding dress, frederick w. elwell // dying swan, vladimir tretchikoff interview with james hall, richard siken // tired, ramon casas // the magdalene grieving, caravaggio // dirty valentine, richard siken // first love / late spring, mitski // exhausted, andre kohn

On Love and Understanding

Boygenius-Bite the Hand//Richard Siken-Crush//Thich Nhat Hanh//The Journals of Sylvia Plath-Sylvia Plath//Boygenius-Bite the hand//Little Women-Greta Gerwig (dir.)//Richard Siken-Crush// @vampireapologist