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Kek Lok Si Temple, Penang ✨

photo by me

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“Out of jasmine the night’s blood streams white. 

Your perfume, my weakness and your secret, follows me like a snakebite”

—  Mahmoud Darwish 

(via vitrina:)

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“Ruins that are not ruins, but hymns of luminous memory.”

— Hélène Cixous, from Coming to Writing and Other Essays, tr. by Deborah Jenson

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Ada Limón, from a poem titled "Wonder Woman", featured in The Carrying: Poems

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I have been staring at the tree for a long time now. I am reminded of the righteousness I had before the scorch of time. I miss who I was. I miss who we all were, before we were this: half alive to the brightening sky, half dead already.

Ada Limón, from 'Salvage'

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“O you gods, you long-limbed animals, you astride the sea and you unhammocked in the cyprus grove and you with your hair full of horses, please. My thoughts have turned from the savor of plums to the merits of pity – touch and interrupt me, chasten me with waking, humble me for wonder again.”

— Rebecca Lindenberg, Litany

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Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments (trans. Richard Howard) [transcript in ALT]

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oranges in Marrakech 🍊

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Fig Way, Dhahran Aramco (2024)

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the unbearable heaviness of girlhood / Su Xinyu / Lucie Brock-Broido

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It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over, Anne de Marcken

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“Water is the first thing in my imagination. Over the reaches of the eyes at Guaya when I was a little girl, I knew that there was still more water. All beginning in water, all ending in water. Turquoise, aquamarine, deep green, deep blue, ink blue, navy, blue-black cerulean water… Water is the first thing in my memory. The sea sounded like a thousand secrets, all whispered at the same time. In the daytime it was indistinguishable to me from air… The same substance that carried voices or smells, music or emotion.”

— Dionne Brand, from A Map to the Door of No Return

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Joan Didion, from Blue Nights

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marina

seafoam, mermaids, Botticelli's Venus, a necklace made of rice pearls 🌊