my form and what it contains
for once
one in the same
they say you see red
but all
i ever see
is
you
“Look Back in Anger” by Meaghan Merrifield
Artwork by Francis Bacon
Author: meaghanmerrifield
Rage Quake
marble bones
shuffle
as the ancient city
groans
“Rage Quake” by Meaghan Merrifield
Artwork by tareco
Top 5 Tuesday: Literary Works on Lust and Destruction
1.) Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
“Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is”
2.) Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
“Be with me always – take any form – drive me mad! Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!”
3.) Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.”
4.) Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
“The hell with this aching, suffering, callow, half-assed delusion that he was in “love” with her. The hell with “love” anyway, and with every other phony, time-wasting, half-assed emotion in the world.”
5.) Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
“They’ve got no idea what happiness is, they don’t know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us–there is no life.”
The Animal Inside
“I am a cage, in search of a bird.” Franz Kafka
Artwork by The White Deer
The Night Eye
Morning Follows the Night
morning mist collides with salty cement
my blisterd feet fumble to where i was
before the night was spent
with blurry black soles
and bloody ribbons running through my eyes
i walk
and walk
as the sun continues its rise
“Morning Follows the Night” by Meaghan Merrifield
Artwork by Sarah
I’m All Ears
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart.
I am,
I am,
I am.”
Quote from Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar
“I Hear Everything” by Liam Brazier
Designed and Directed
Where the viaduct looms like a bird of doom
as it shifts and cracks
Where secrets lie in the border fires
in the humming wires
On a gathering storm comes a tall handsome man
In a dusty black coat with a red right hand
You’re one microscopic cog
in his catastrophic plan
Designed and directed by
his red right hand
Lyrics by Nick Cave
Artwork by Romain Zamet
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