how PTSD feels like a fracture of the self. from this post by @ojibwa / Guang Yang aka 阳光 aka Yang Guang (Chinese, b. 1981, Shiyan City, Hubei, China, based Xian, China) - 刻耳柏洛斯 (Cerberus), 2022, Paintings / visual poem by @hee-blee-art / Threads of Transformation: ‘Conversion’ by Kim Westfall, 2016. Vibrant acrylic yarn woven into a tapestry of emotional rebirth. / A Self-Portrait in Letters by Anne Sexton / skeleton! by brian luong. / Ghost I, Christina Marie Brown

I WILL HAVE A BEAUTIFUL LIFE. Anna Haifisch "The Life I've Always Longed For" / Kate Baer, from And Yet: Poems; “Idea” / Sung Hwa Kim (@_sunghwa_) It's not just a city, it’s the record of the passion and dreams of our youth. 2023 / Franz Kafka, Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors / Nhat Hanh / Forugh Farrokhzad, The House Is Black, 1962 / Tribute to Anna Haifisch

Vincent van Gogh, Ever Yours: The Essential Letters / Monika Marchewka — "Longing" (oil on canvas, 2023) / Mary Oliver, from The Gardener / Jenny Holzer / Love and Goodbye, Rala Choi / 日下 明 - Akira Kusaka / Natalie Wee, Least of all

Sweet Springtime Is Here. E.E. Cummings "when faces called flowers float out of the ground" (1955) / Suzaku (dir. Naomi Kawase) 1997 / Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle / Flowers in the Mountain (Hana no yama) from Ehagaki sekai / Sorrow Is Not My Name, Ross Gay / Pyunggang Botanical Garden (평강식물원) / Easter, Emily Pauline Johnson / Sunflowers, c. 1982. Andrew Wyeth. / E.E. Cummings "when faces called flowers float out of the ground" (1955)

fatima aamer bilal, excerpt from moony moonless sky’s ‘i am tired of making a religion out of my suffering’. / Wilhelm Sasnal  -  Untitled   (oil on canvas, 2017) / Amy Hempel, Cloudland / Malcolm T. Liepke (b.1953) American. / Lucille Clifton, from The Book of Light; “Climbing” / Lee Song, Four Meditations (2020), Oil on Canvas / Elena Ferrante, from Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein)

in your own words... who are you? no one at all. Miss Ruby Williams (1928-2022) "Untitled" / Kaveh Akbar, "Calling a Wolf a Wolf" / Hearts of Darkness (1991) dir. Eleanor Coppola, George Hickenlooper, Fax Bahr / Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own (1929) / @haleyincarnate 's collage / Sophocles, Elektra, trans. Anne Carson [1123-1140]

Mark Wang // When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, Chen Chen / Neither is there anyone - Simon Bang , 2020-21. Danish, b. 1960. Acrylic on canvas , 95 x 54 cm. / Nikki Giovanni,The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998 / Chris Cyprus, Northern Lights #226, Oil on canvas / Gabriela Mistral, Selected Prose and Prose-Poems / The Thing Is by Ellen Bass

to live, even when it feels unbearable. | Evelyn Waugh, from Brideshead Revisited (1945) / The White Book (Le Livre Blanc) by Jean Cocteau, 1930 / Mieko Kawakami, Heaven / Insomnia, Mark Andres, acrylic on canvas, 2021 / Florence Welch, from Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry; “Maybe it would be fun” / Aleksandra Waliszewska / El Sur (Víctor Erice, 1983) / Deer On the Side of the American Highway by Devin Kelly / neil hilborn, numbered days / Sun on the horizon (Naomi Kawase, 1996) / Blythe Baird, from If My Body Could Speak; “Eat”

generational anger. Tongues Untied (Marlon Riggs, 1989) / The Noise Must Become Music by Fumi Nakamura / Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides, Anne Carson / The House with the Black Door by James Hutton / Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, Jeanette Winterson

on reconnecting with one's self. Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us / Isao Takahata's Only Yesterday (1991) / Anais Nin, Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1939-1947 / @sha963 / Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous / Untitled (2022), Sung Hwa Kim, soft pastels and acrylic on paper / Better in the Morning, Birdtalker / Untitled (2022), Sung Hwa Kim, soft pastels and acrylic on paper / Jenn Givhan, from “The Decision”

it's enough that you're alive. unknown. / Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, Rien ne va plus / ai weiwei: never sorry / Princess Mononoke. Hayao Miyazaki. / Lyrics are Cough It Out by The Front Bottoms. Art Here. / The Orange by Wendy Cope. / Sophia Joan Short

is it loneliness or solitude?

Jaakko Pallasvuo / Euripides, tr. by Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripidesm / scarlet. Holly Warburton. / Natalie Díaz, from "American Arithmetic", Postcolonial Love Poem / dog on the hill. Holly Warburton. / Jenny Slate, On Love, Loneliness, & Giant Dogs / evening sketch. Holly Warburton. / Natalie Díaz, from "American Arithmetic", Postcolonial Love Poem.

David Shrigley, from Instagram. / How Many Blankets are in the World? saintseneca / David Shrigley, from Instagram. / Carol Ann Duffy, from The World’s Wife; “Medusa” / Listen, Little Man! Wilhelm Reich / Natalie Díaz, from “Isn't the Air Also a Body, Moving?”, Postcolonial Love Poem

Alison Kronstadt, Bred In Captivity / Icarus, 1970 - ADGER COWANS / Natalie Diaz, from Grief Work/ Escape I, 2018 by Rumi Zsófi / Franz Wright, from God's Silence; "East Boston, 1996" / :> from @mm-mina / from @averyluckyclover post found here.

we still have the moon.

Enomoto Seifu-Jo, tr. by Kenneth Rexroth, from Written on the Sky; Poems from the Japanese / Tomoharu Okamura SUI-GETSU Japanese paper, Metallic foil, Mineral pigments, Pigment 2017 / Emily Skaja, from Brute: Poems; “No, I do not want to connect with you on Linkedin” / Still falls the rain, Daichi Takagi / Adonis, ‘Beginnings of the Body, Ends of the Sea’ / Winter night in the Netherlands -  Stefan  Bleekrode , 2018. / e.e. cummings, from “the moon looked into my window” (excerpt from Is 5), Complete Poems: 1904-1962 / Golden House Nocturne   -  Christopher Burk / The Door, Margaret Atwood / Lois Dodd, New Moon Through the Trees. 2015 /