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@loputyn // Pauline Albanese, The Closed Doors // Margaret Atwood, "Hesitations Outside the Door" // Madeleine Miller, Circe // see 1 // @lhzthepoet // I'm Your Man—Mitski // Mahmoud Darwish, "She/He" // see 1 // anon.

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the father wound

succession // amanda grace // ? // ? // get gone by fiona apple // jasmine r. // succession // windowsill by arcade fire // ?

#web weaving #parallels #compilation #poetry #on fathers #father and daughter #fatherhood #toxic dad #literature #lit #art #collage #succession #shiv roy

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the price of belonging to you

Marguerite Duras // Bethany Webster // survival - adult mom // white oleander // rose brik // Emile Munier // franz kafka // white oleander & charles bukowski

#web weaving #parallels #compilation #poetry #white oleander #on mothers #the mother wound #mothers and daughters #motherhood #mother’s rage #franz kafka #literature #lit

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White Oleander (2002) dir. by Peter Kosminsky

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the feminine urge to run away from my small town and never come back

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— Frida Kahlo, The Letters of Frida Kahlo: Cartas Apasionadas

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various sacred hearts (damien hirst; tim tate; antique ex-voto; 19th c. french religious card; 19th c. french reliquary; repousee antique; carved wood frame c. 1890-1920; unknown painting)

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Christina Marie Brown, Chronic Illness

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"i wonder if the dead know we are writing about them. i wonder if the missing girl wanted to be a symbol. i worry that to be a poet is to sit and wait for beautiful things to die. to exploit distance. to steal their flight. to wring murder into myth, to retell it."

– Inside Every Poem You Can Hear Muffled Screams, by Gaia Rajan

#poetry #lit #literature #texts

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i love female hysteria

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Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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Jennifer Willough, from “The Sun Is Still A Part Of Me”, Beautiful Zero: Poems

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Natalie Díaz, from “American Arithmetic”, Postcolonial Love Poem (2020)