#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.

[monomorphilogical]

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

[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

[rexlottie]

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

[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

[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

[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

[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.

[havingapoemwithyou]

birds hover the trampled field by Richard Siken

[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

[irrealisms]

the three worst girls since eve - we know the devil collages

[sources under cut]

jupiter

NASA - NASA - NASA and Seán Doran - wktd artbook - fakeyouth - creophagy, angelica alzona - nebula stories, paul juno - handshake, gabalut - shutterstock stock image - HANDS SPEAK SECRETS, sunsbleeding - chacoco - 10 am is when you come to me, louise bourgeois - hand sketch, magsmunroe - wuukasch - neon praying hands, alison ullman - life's anecdote, claine - kirkurada - birds hover the trampled field, richard siken - wasted, marya hornbatcher

venus

nebulous 12, tara andris - broken mirror/evening sky, bing wright - wktd artbook - aurora, jacob böhme - untitled eyes, shawn barber - sandalphon and metatron in their chrysalis, ultrainfinitepit - and the angel said, “DO NOT BE AFRAID.”, katz ripley - frommoon2moon - pinterest - effie lealand - ascending athena, amy judd - pinterest - soapstore - untitled (gabriel's wing), robert longo - pinterest - all EYES on YOU, elena kulikova - wikipedia page for lucifer

neptune

giorgio trovato - wktd artbook - contact, mé - swimming pool iv, margot olde loohuis - rorschach blot 02, wikimedia commons - dendritic drainage pattern, wikimedia commons - julia kadel - unsplash - brush elegy, robert motherwell - pinterest - rough seas near lobster point, robert henri - the great wave off kanagawa, katsushika hokusai - sol tenebrarum: the occult study of melancholy, asenath mason - dripping paint - pinterest - delectable-collectables

[detergentbubble]

1. S.T., "300122," Tumblr, January 30, 2022, https://www.tumblr.com/ryebreadgf /674840497145233408/300122-st.

2. Silas Denver Melvin, "love as an act of merciful conquer," Tumblr, November 2, 2021, https://www.tumblr.com/sweatermuppet /669052643259432960/from-love-as-an-act -of-merciful-conquer-by-silas.

4. Richard Siken, "Birds Hover the Trampled Field," in War of the Foxes (April 28, 2015).

5. Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (April 1, 2000).

[amiablesummer]

You are addicted to what you cannot possess.

1. Antonio Canova, Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss / 2. wikipedia / 3. Anna Akhmatova, "To Alexander Blok", tr. Lenore Mayhew & William McNaughton / 4. wikipedia / 5. The Crane Wives, "Never Love an Anchor" / 6. Bernardino Mei, Ghismonda with the Heart of Guiscardo (detail) / 7. Susannah Irene, "Everyone You've Loved" / 8. Vonko Magno on flikr / 9. Richard Siken, "Birds Hover the Trampled Field" / 10. Richard Jackson, "Basic Algebra" / Title: Frank Bidart, "Dream Reveals in Neon the Great Addictions"