はなちゃんと、世界のかたち (Hana-chan and the Shape of the World), Ryotaro Ueda
photo and design by Hans A. Verkroost, 1991.
“I could not stop wasting time. It was crazy. I wanted to do something with my life, but instead I went to sleep, or sung in the shower, or sat and stared at the wall. I couldn’t even tell you about anything that I saw. I didn’t talk to anybody. The cicadas kept dying outside, and as I dreamed, my mouth grew thick and venomous with silence.”
Yiwei Chai, The Jacaranda Years
Hans Hermann Swoboda
Magical sunset winter in Julian Alps mountains (by Levente Fesus)
“There is no other home”, Soviet poster, 1986.
“How do I look away now that I have seen you?”
— Rachel Mennies, from “April 18, 2017,” The Naomi Letters (via lifeinpoetry)
Oh the memory of these careless summer days will linger like sweetness on the tongue
// Part 21
and when I looked, the moon had turned to gold