#Fragments in the dark

[mournfulroses]

Anne Michaels, from "Infinite Gradation," originally published in October 2017

[secretsiwhispertothemoon]

Frida Kahlo, from a letter wr. c. November 1933, featured in The Letters of Frida Kahlo: Cartas Apasionadas

[just-a-normal-archivist]

Two halves of a broken truth, twisted and torn. It's almost amusing watching someone try to assemble a mirror that only reflects lies. The messy scribbles, the poor handwriting... Some things are meant to stay incomplete.

--. . - / .- .-- .- -.-- / ..-. .-. --- -- / - .... .. ... / ... - ..- .--. .. -.. / .--. .-. --- .--- . -.-. -

Not every piece belongs...? Are these pieces part of different puzzles, or am I just missing the connection? If anyone has any thoughts, I'm open to ideas. This feels like trying to read a book with half the pages torn out.

[fairydrowning]

– Noor Unnahar, Instagram account "noor_unnahar"

[TEXT ID: / [Lemons] / My father's mother loved lemons. Years after her passing, / we run out of everything, but never / lemons. / Nothing else shelters grief / better than memory. / It's my father way of saying, / even in your absence, you will be / cared by me. / END ID]

[maryqos]

coco mellors, cleopatra and frankenstein.

[dionyrtal]

Vertigo Peaks by Dion Anja 2. Return II by Dean Gioia

[sunshinesere]

Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone / This is How You Lose the Time War

[sfsolstice]

Anaïs Nin, in a letter to Henry Miller, d. March 9, 1932, from A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953

[wordedarchive]

Flowers only, and the moonlight coloured May.

Virginia Woolf, The Waves

[soracities]

Joe Bolton, from "Alcohol" [ID'd]

[shisasan]

There’s nothing like books waiting to ruin you completely, stories that tear you apart only to leave you more whole than before.

[mournfulroses]

Else Fitzgerald, from "Everything Feels Like the End of The World," publ. in 2022

[secretsiwhispertothemoon]

Bilal Al-Shams, Sacrifice

[mysterieuxclairdelune]

{Juansen Dizon, I Am The Architect of My Own Destruction page 24/ Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 6: 1955-1966/ Alice Hoffman, The Red Garden/ Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 5: 1947-1955/ Haruki Murakami: Norwegian Wood, page 276/ Michael Ondaatje/ Catherynne M. Valente, The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden/ D.H. Lawrence, from The Complete Works; The Plumbed Serpent/ Jean-Paul Sartre, from No Exit/ Alice Notley, from In The Pines: Poems; "In The Pines,"}

[fairydrowning]

"The day was beautiful, warm and clear. It was the end of August."

– Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

[maryqos]

kate elizabeth russell, my dark vanessa.