again and again, she leaps (—NOT
as a ballerina leaps, as if she loved the air, as if the air were her element—)
SHE LEAPS
BECAUSE SHE HATES THE GROUND.
— Frank Bidart, from “The War of Vaslav Nijinsky”; Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016
“An abandoned child / works harder for a longer gaze // a position closest to the sun”
— — Mahogany L. Browne, from I Remember Death By Its Proximity to What I Love (via lifeinpoetry)
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Masha C by Slastyonoff - from Kirstyscloset archive
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nancy lee, analysis from "what hurts going down" (2020)
The Dress Lamp Tree, Tim Walker (2002) / The Handmaiden, Park Chan-wook (2016)
Martha Graham & her dancers in Heretic (1929) Photographs by Soichi Sunami.
There are people whose fate is directed by a sinister star.
Sadeq Hedayat, Buried Alive; from 'Buried Alive', tr. Deborah Miller Mostaghel
Kinga Rajzák reads Saul Newman’s From Bakunin to Lacan: Anti-Authoritarianism and the Dislocation of Power backstage at Versace.
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Model Kirsty Hume and actor/former model Donovan Leitch at their wedding (1997)
Gianfranco Ferré Fall/Winter, 2001 Ready-to-Wear
John Kacere with one of his painting
Egon Schiele
Sapovnela (Otar Iosseliani, 1959)
Su Tissue <3
Belladonna of Sadness | Eiichi Yamamoto | 1973
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Irises and seraphim