erin kathleen

into the west / softer @woodloused

[erin kathleen @theovergrowth]

my grandmother, who sailed from glasgow for an orange tree and love and some cigarettes

[Musical Notation is Beautiful @NotationIsGreat]

The manuscript of Claude Debussy's "The snow is dancing"!

[erin kathleen @theovergrowth]

@hoonlives95 @forgetlings @cborruso the only way to celebrate this holiday is to have an 8 hour Jaws marathon, we’ve decided

[erin kathleen @theovergrowth]

@hoonlives95 @cborruso @forgetlings most definitely glaucous blue

[erin kathleen @theovergrowth]

a sweaty midnight bath whilst my husband listens to piano music, taking notes

[Kim Dorman @mkimdorman]

Old age can see at last the loveliness of things overlooked or despised, frost, the dancing maggots, sheepdogs, and particularly the stars which make time a paradox and a joke til we can give up our own time, even though we wasted it.

-Basil Bunting,
on "Briggflatts"

[Kim Dorman @mkimdorman]

Michael O’Brien / To the River

[christine morro @beautywbrainn]

"The continents of this world are huge, dreaming animals.”

Martin Shaw

[Kara Krewer @kara_krewer]

I'd like to see the Poetry Foundation set up fellowships for those who rarely get university support: folks w/o MFAs or BAs, older POC & queer writers, folks who are caretakers, disabled writers, & those who were formerly incarcerated.

[erin kathleen @theovergrowth]

no more room for light or healing

[Kim Dorman @mkimdorman]

(I)

This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning god . . .

-Walt Whitman

[Aná @annamo_ana]

Edouard Manet,
Prunes , c. 1880

[erin kathleen @theovergrowth]

this is not about me, but rather about a significant lack of capable voices in communities that want to do good but let ignorance prevail. it’s about internalized racism and about people who are so far removed from problematic epicenters that they struggle to fully know them.

[erin kathleen @theovergrowth]

we nearly went to a protest in our small desert town last night, but instinctively it felt off— disorganized, whitewashed, overly simplistic. hours later, a video surfaced of the organizers singing appropriated protest songs and chanting “all lives matter” at a single police van

[erin kathleen @theovergrowth]

instead I watched five dear & brave friends get arrested on the frontlines in California, and two more get shot with a torrent of rubber bullets. and I sat here in the cradle of the mountains and felt very far away, very powerless, very small.

[Seamus Heaney @HeaneyDaily]

No such thing
as innocent
bystanding.

[erin kathleen @theovergrowth]

later on I was dodging a storm of great white sharks near a misty lake and barely made it out alive, only to end up at a great white shark amusement park where they served great white shark ice cream. it was actually just shark poke, and I argued the terminology with an employee

[erin kathleen @theovergrowth]

went to sleep with a blazing migraine and ended up having dreams last night about Elrond (yes, the elf lord Elrond) and great white sharks

[erin kathleen @theovergrowth]

in case anyone is curious, Elrond was an ex-boyfriend and living in the apartment below us. he wrote a laughably awful novel based on my relationship with him, and my husband, parents, & I snuck into his apartment to read it. he confronted us (yes, while wearing his elfin robes)