#birds hover the trampled field

[haleyincarnate]

Something's not right about what I'm doing but I'm still doing it--living in the worst parts, ruining myself. My inner life is a sheet of black glass. If I fell through the floor I would keep falling. The enormity of my desire disgusts me.

Richard Siken, War of the Foxes; "Birds Hover the Trampled Field"

[sundry-whovengerslocked]

Birds Hover the Trampled Field

Richard Siken, "Birds Hover the Trampled Field" // Doctor Who

Part 1 / Part 2

just a small psa: I know that these aren't well balanced, for example an excess of Twelve and not nearly enough Nine or Eleven. I just picked the lines that stood out to me and chose the images that came to mind.

[malaisequotes]

“Never finish a war without starting another. I've seen your true face: the back of your head. If you were walking away, keep walking.”

Birds Hover the Trampled Field by Richard Siken

[monomorphilogical]

Excerpt of ‘Birds Hover The Trampled Field’, from War of the Foxes by Richard Siken.

[moonmovement]

Never finish a war without starting another.

Richard Siken, Birds Hover the Trampled Field

[rexlottie]

I hope you now know that I've never left you.

[asoftepiloguemylove]

SHE HATED HER LIFE, NOT BECAUSE IT WAS BAD, BUT BECAUSE WHEN YOU HATE YOUR BRAIN AND YOUR BODY, IT'S HARD TO ENJOY THE REST.

Franny Choi I Guess By Now I Thought I'd Be Done With Shame / Erika L. Sánchez Amá / Franz Kafka Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors / Hanif Abdurraqib A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance / Richard Siken Birds Hover over the Trampled Field / Hélène Cixous The Selected Poems of Hélène Cixous / Alberto Zamboni Ovunque / Oscar Nin / Richard Siken Crush

i. Franny Choi I Guess By Now I Thought I'd Be Done With Shame [ Somewhere, / there is a version of me that isn't neck-deep in her invented filth. ]

ii. Erika L. Sánchez Amá [ Amá, I leave because / I feel like an unfinished / poem, because I'm always trying to bridge the difference. ]

iii. Franz Kafka Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors [ I don't feel particularly proud of myself. / But when I walk alone in the woods or lie in the meadows, all is well. ]

iv. Hanif Abdurraqib A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance [ I've run out of language to explain the avalanche of anguish I feel when faced with this world, and so if I can't make sense of this planet, I'm better off imagining another. ]

v. Richard Siken Birds Hover the Trampled Field [ The enormity of my desire disgusts me. ]

vi. Hélène Cixous The Selected Poems of Hélène Cixous [ You horrify me. But at the same time, I horrify myself. We are horrible. ]

vii. Alberto Zamboni Ovunque [ The silhouettes of two human figures stand in a room. The background is blurred around them. ]

viii. Oscar Nin [ Distressed painting portrait of a man. ]

ix. Richard Siken Crush [ a gentleness that comes, not from the absence of violence, but despite the abundance of it. ]

[litany-writes]

doodle from the margins of my um. confessions (by augustine) notes from today

[luvbug724]

not a girl - ashe vernon // i want you to know that i'm awake / i hope that you're asleep - car seat headrest // asoup on tumblr // gleipnir - walton ford // grief lessons: four plays by euripides - anne carson // us against you - fredrik backman // saint bernard - lincoln // war of the foxed - richard siken // the hunger games - suzanne collins // belovéd - yves olade // dishes in the sink by david showalter // rbhvelo on tumblr // crime and punishment - fyodor dostoevsky // the oresteia - aeschylus // birds hover the trampled field - richard siken // the torn-up road - richard siken // how simple - hop along // beach life-in-death - car seat headrest // study of a man - thomas couture // september affirmation (don't be afraid) - keaton st. james

[lessthanpog]

lucille clifton, climbing / richard siken, birds hover the trampled field / emily palermo, what i could never confess without some bravado / cj hauser, the crane wife / halsey, forever ... (is a long time) / @love-letters-i-never-sent / halsey, I HATE EVERYBODY / @tullipsink / dante émile, after cameron awkward-rich / chen chen, when i grow up i want to be a list of further possibilities

[metamorphesque]

— Birds Hover The Trampled Field, Richard Siken

[sundry-whovengerslocked]

Birds Hover the Trampled Field

Richard Siken, "Birds Hover the Trampled Field" // Doctor Who

Part 1 / Part 2

just a small psa: I know that these aren't well balanced, for example an excess of Twelve and not nearly enough Nine or Eleven. I just picked the lines that stood out to me and chose the images that came to mind.

[malaisequotes]

“Something's not right about what I'm doing but I'm still doing it—living in the worst parts, ruining myself. My inner life is a sheet of black glass. If I fell through the floor I would keep falling.”

Birds Hover the Trampled Field by Richard Siken

[newvision]

— Richard Siken, from ‘Birds Hover the Trampled Field’ in War of the Foxes

[orb0]

minedai + that one richard siken quote.

taken from: birds hover over the trampled field, from war of foxes

[asoftepiloguemylove]

on childhood and growing up

Noah Kahan The View Between Villages / Taylor Swift Never Grow Up / Kim Addonizio The Women; Wild Nights: New and Selected Poems / @/twinnedpeaks (on tumblr) / Taylor Swift You're On Your Own Kid / リリイ・シュシュのすべて All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001) dir. 岩井 俊二 Shunji Iwai / Martha Gellhorn in a letter to Hortenese Flexner and Wyncie King; Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn / Richard Siken Birds Hover the Trampled Field; War of the Foxes / The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2013) dir. Stephen Chbosky / Katie Maria The Memory of a Memory / Lorde Secrets From a Girl (Who's Seen it All) / Keaton St. James A List for Nightdreamers