I dream this world

Grackle with Chip

Henry Scott Tuke, Summer Dreams (1918) / Richard Siken, I Had a Dream About You (2000)

good morning how do i kill the yearning before it kills me

franz kafka / richard siken

Orestes by Euripides (Translated by Anne Carson) from An Oresteia

one-sided platonic feelings always hit me so hard. like. i want you to love me like a son, but to you i’m not much more than a servant. i swore our oath of brotherhood out of real devotion, and you swore it out of convenience. i want to go to the ends of the earth and the depths of hell for you and follow you until the end of time, and in your mind that’s no more than what i owe you

Mairon

Natalie Díaz, from “Cranes, Mafiosos, and a Polaroid Camera”, Postcolonial Love Poem

Gabriela Mistral, tr. by Ursula K. Le Guin, Selected Poems

Marina Tsvetaeva, excerpt from Poem of the End, Selected Poems (trans. Elaine Feinstein, with Angela Livingstone) [ID'd]

Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies

The best quality a fictional man can have is being deeply, pathetically, wretchedly in love with someone, I think

Some pages from my gardening sketchbook.

whatever. WHATEVER.

Quick sketch of our Ecthelion just chilling at home because I wanted to try out granulating watercolours and what's a better subject than the primary character you've been drawing for the past 3 years