2020-05-20 1:31:24 ¶ ●

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Does siken have any quotes about lovers becoming strangers?

This verse from War of the Foxes comes to mind.

“Let me tell you a story about war:

They went to the museum and wandered the rooms. He saw a painting and stood in front of it for
too long. It was a few minutes before she realized he had gotten stuck. He was stuck looking at a
painting. She stood next to him, looking at his face and then the face in the painting. What do you see?
she asked. I don’t know, he said. He didn’t know. She was disappointed, then bored. He was looking at
a face and she was looking at her watch. This is where everything changed. There was now a distance
between them. He was looking at a face but it might as well have been a cabbage or a sugar beet.
Perhaps it was something about yellow near pink. He didn’t know how to say it. Years later he still
didn’t know how to say it, and she was gone.”

If anyone else knows of any other quotes on this theme, send me a message and I’ll post them as well!

2020-05-21 1:32:05 ¶ ● ⬈

> Can we love nature for what it really is: predatory?

Richard Siken, Landscape With Fruit Rot and Milipede
(via fluoresensitive)

2020-05-22 1:31:48 ¶ ● ⬀ ⬈

raspberyjam:

> the torn-up road by richard siken - geoff mcfetridge

2020-05-23 1:31:47 ¶ ● ⬈

heavensghost:

> Richard Siken, Planet of Love

2020-05-24 1:31:40 ¶ ● ⬀ ⬈

r-siken:

> straw house, straw dog, richard siken

2020-05-25 1:31:35 ¶ ● ⬈

heavensghost:

> Do you know how it ends?

> Do you feel lucky?

> Do you want to go home now?

2020-05-26 1:31:27 ¶ ● ⬈

wtfniall:

> > detail of the fire by richard siken

2020-05-27 1:31:44 ¶ ● ⬈

> I surrender my desire to be healed. The blurriness of being alive.

Richard Siken, Self-Portrait Against Red Wallpaper (via old-oblivion)

2020-05-28 1:31:41 ¶ ● ⬈

facinaoris:

> War of the Foxes, Richard Siken

2020-05-29 1:31:23 ¶ ● ⬈

> The world doesn’t know
> what to do with my love. Because it isn’t used to being loved. It’s a framework problem.

Richard Siken, Self-Portrait Against Red Wallpaper (via old-oblivion)

2020-05-30 1:31:13 ¶ ● ⬈

> You know what it’s like to be alive, so forgiveness.

Richard Siken, The Stag and the Quiver (via old-oblivion)