#literary parallels
treacherous, taylor swift (red) / candles, daughter (his young heart)
Falling out of love.
Emily Dickinson // illustration by @/peopleiveloved on ig // Miranda July,No One Belongs Here More Than You//Taylor Swift,Gold Rush//Ben Davis, Sr. // artwork by @/lettersformagnolia on ig // radio silenceby@ninasdrafts // illustration by @/today.i.am.sad on ig
forgetfulness, an absence, a mere nothing.
Phillip B. Williams, “Final Poem for My Father Misnamed in My Mouth,” published in the New Yorker // Mark Strand, “Keeping Things Whole,” via the Poetry Society of America // Rebecca Doverspike, from “Every present thing, a ghost of something,” Every Present Thing a Ghost: Poems // Artworks by Holly Warburton//W.S. Merwin,“Separation” from The Second Four Books of Poems // W.S. Merwin, from “After the Voices,” The Moon Before Morning // Siobhan Vivian,Same Difference//Audrey Niffenegger, from ‘The Time Traveler’s Wife’ // Haruki Murakami,Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories // Rosario Castellanos, tr. by Julian Palley, from Meditation on the Threshold: A Bilingual Anthology of Poetry; “Destiny”
Alfred Lord Tennyson//Death Cab For Cutie,The New Year // @/geloyconcepcion on ig // Margaret Atwood,You are Happy//Charles Bukowski//Edith Lovejoy Pierce//Lucille Clifton Hope,I am running into a new year//Lang Leav,This Was The Year
• The mortifying ordeal of being forgotten.
Danny Castillones Sillada,Those Sweet and Painful Memories // Artwork by @/zhihuie on twitter // V.E. Schwab,The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue//Halsey,Angel on Fire//Steve Salo,Forgotten Art//Halsey,Angel on Fire//Sarah Thebarge,The Invisible Girls//Mitski,Working for the Knife // Artwork by @/bekysfairy on ig // Octavio Paz, tr. by Eliot Weinberger, from The Poems of Octavio Paz; “The Prisoner”
Pablo Neruda,The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems//@sunsbleeding//Anaïs Nin, from Henry & June; A Journal of Love: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin (1932–1934) // Kailah Figueroa, from “june 4th, new york city,” published in Homology Lit
Eleanor Estes,The Witch Family // Artwork by Kate Zhbanova|The Legend of Sleepy HollowbyGabriel Tanko//Evan Peters//@darlingtheyfoundthebody//Ray Bradbury//Karen Russell,Vampires in the Lemon Grove//IntrudersbySabin Boykinov//Karen Fortunati//Jenny Colgan,Welcome To Rosie Hopkins’ Sweetshop Of Dreams//Stephen King
Adonis, from Selected Poems; “Celebrating Al-Ma'ari: II. Days” (tr. Khaled Mattawa)
Adonis, from Selected Poems; “A Piece of Bahlul’s Sun” (tr. Khaled Mattawa)
Alejandra Pizarnik,tr. by Yvette Siegert, “Extracting the Stone of Madness”, Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972
John Keats, from Ode to a Nightingale
George Sand (Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin) in her letter to Gustave Flaubert dated 27 June 1870, featured in The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert letters
Louise Glück, from Averno; “October”
All night long I hear the call of death, all night long I hear the song of death down by the river, all night long I hear the voice of death calling out to me.
Alejandra Pizarnik,tr. by Yvette Siegert, “The Dream of Death, or the Site of the Poetical Bodies”, Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972
Artworks by kotartist
when Taylor Swift sang, “but I’m a fire, and I’ll keep your brittle heart warm” and when Lorde sang, “my blood is a flood of rubies, precious stones. it keeps my veins hot, the fires find a home in me. i move through town, i’m quiet like a fire” and when Mitski sang, “i am a forest fire, and i am the fire and i am the forest, and I am a witness watching it.”
Richard Siken,Crush//Ingeborg Bachmann//Oscar Wilde,The Picture of Dorian Gray //Anne Carson,The Beauty of the Husband
