lifeinpoetry:

Want is ten thousand blue feathers falling
all around me, and me unable to stomach
that I might catch five but never ten thousand.
So I drop my hands to my sides and wait
to be buried.

— Catherine Pierce, from “Because I’ll Never Swim in Every Ocean,” The Girls of Peculiar

(Source: lifeinpoetry, via night-rooms)

fullwoman:

“I have been carrying out a dialogue between the landscape and the female body (based on my own silhouette). I believe this has been a direct result of my having been torn from my homeland (Cuba) during my adolescence. I am overwhelmed by the feeling of having been cast from the womb (nature). My art is the way I re-establish the bonds that unite me to the universe. It is a return to the maternal source.” - Ana Mendieta

(via night-rooms)