Circe Invidiosa by John William Waterhouse (1892)
ALTWendy Cope, From June to December: Summer Villanelle
2023
CRAZY GAY SEX
MORALLY QUESTIONABLE LITERATURE
FUCKED UP MILDLY TRAUMATIZING BUT ULTIMATELY CHARACTER BUILDING EXPERIENCES
INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL IN SHITTY CONDITIONS
ACADEMIC SUCCESS BUT NOT TO THE EXPENSE OF MENTAL HEALTH
EVEN CRAZIER GAY SEX
– Mihail Sebastian, For Two Thousand Years (translation by Philip Ó Ceallaigh)
– Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait Through Letters
– Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Elizabeth Holland (early November 1865)