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𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑛𝑜 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑎, 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑒𝑟.

—Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

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I lust for him, and in my mind I am ripped to bits by the words he welds and wields […]

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath ⁠— 5th April 1956

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when sylvia plath said “being born a woman is my awful tragedy. from the moment i was conceived i was doomed to sprout breasts and ovaries rather than penis and scrotum; to have my whole circle of action, thought and feeling rigidly circumscribed by my inescapable feminity. yes, my consuming desire to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, bar room regulars - to be a part of scene, anonomous, listening, recording - all is spoiled by the fact that i am a girl, a female always in danger of assault and battery. my consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. yet, god, i want to talk to everybody i can as deeply as i can. i want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night“

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Are you washed in the blood?

In the soul cleansing blood of the Lamb?

Are your garments spotless, are they white as snow?

Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?

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"mother" by Claú Clará

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Brooke DiDonato

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Rural Ontario in July

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Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned.

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every bruise i mysteriously get is a touch from an angel

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Poéme Maudit (detail) by Santiago Caruso, 2013