it is not poetry's job to wipe away tears. / poetry should dig a trench where they can overflow and drown the universe.

i’m still here

july reads 🫧 • the lying life of adults, elena ferrante • the lost daughter, elena ferrante • piranesi, susanna clarke • vera wong’s unsolicited advice for murderers, jesse q. susanto • you better be lightning, andrea gibson • paradise rot, jenny hval

when andrea gibson said “just to be clear i don’t want to get out without a broken heart. i intend to leave this life so shattered there’s gonna have to be a thousand separate heavens for all of my flying parts”

favorite first watches of july: • super happy forever (igarashi kohei, 2024) • falcon lake (charlotte le bon, 2022) • hit the road (panah panahi, 2021) • the life of chuck (mike flanagan, 2025)

salt air, and the rust on your door

it’s shinji sōmai week!!!!! ^___^ • sailor suit and machine gun (1981) • typhoon club (1985) • the moving (1993) • the friends (1994)

shinji sōmai the moving (1993) / the friends (1994) / wait and see (1998)

the friends (1994) ‘夏の庭’ dir. shinji sōmai

glad to know i’m not the only one who feels like this about august 8th

I’m sorry. The notion that Hamas is a terrorist organisation whilst the state of Israel, currently perpetrating genocide, is not, destroys the last disintegrating remnants of credibility western govts had. This is colonialism, in all its savagery.