December 2020

sikenarthistory:

Henry Scott Tuke, Noonday Heat (1902) / Richard Siken, Driving, Not Washing (2005)

We made ourselves cold. We made ourselves snow. We smuggled ourselves into ourselves. Haunted by each other’s knowledge. To hide somewhere is not surrender, it is trickery.

Richard Siken, from “Landscape of Black Coats in Snow” (via voirlvmer)

voirlvmer:

Richard Siken, from “The Worm King’s Lullaby

pebble-in-a-puddle:

from Crush, Richard Siken

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