Unknown//Frank Bidart, Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016//Nerdy Prudes Must Die, Team Starkid, Youtube//Tony

unknown//Frank Bidart, Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016//Nerdy Prudes Must Die, Team Starkid, Youtube//Tony Kushner, Angels in America// Clarice Lispector, The Departure of the Train//Nerdy Prudes Must Die, Team Starkid, Youtube//Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath//Mark Twain//Nerdy Prudes Must Die, Team Starkid, Youtube

who will pray for you? or, longing for something more

part 1 of 3

Night and Her Daughter Sleep, Mary L. Macomber, 1902

i still can’t say it. still.

Jane Austen, Emma

Emma Hunsinger, How To Draw A Horse

Richard Siken, The Torn-Up Road

Margaret Atwood, Power Politics

Richard Siken, Litany In Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out

Emma Hunsinger, How To Draw A Horse

Lord Alfred Douglas, Two Loves

Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

Emma Hunsinger, How To Draw A Horse

Virginia Woolf, in a letter to Vita Sackville-West

Sandro Botticelli (1445–1510), detail of "Idealised Portrait of a Lady (Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci as Nymph)"

the fighter

self-portrait as out-fighter, camille rankine 𝚫 bloodshot, julien baker 𝚫 joshua commanding the sun to stand still upon gibeon (joshua 10: 12-14), john martin 𝚫 classical subject of fighting, john hamilton mortimer 𝚫 violence upon the roads, ray smith 𝚫 samson slaying the philistine, after michelangelo (recto); figure of fury, after rosso fiorentino (verso), giovanni battista naldini 𝚫 medea, charles antoine coypel 𝚫 untitiled, jackson pollock 𝚫 relative fiction, julien baker 𝚫 the boxer, simon & garfunkel

a kiss; oscillating

diana and endymion, sir frank short // venus and adonis, francesco bartolozzi // cleaning a fish, dave smith // pink in the night, mitski // the embrace, auguste rodin // kiss in the field, edvard munch // the predatory wasp of the palisades is out to get us! sufjan stevens