my hobbies? uhh.. peeling back the layers…. uncovering metaphors.. mirroring…..connecting dots…..stuff like that

my hobbies? uhh.. peeling back the layers…. uncovering metaphors.. mirroring…..connecting dots…..stuff like that
Girls will say “I just need to lie down for a little while” and then sink into a muddy river and get all their hard.tissues replaced with mineral deposits
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“Alexander von Riesen (Russian/German, 1892-1964), Wolkenformation mit versteckten Luftgeistern [Cloud Formation with Hidden Air Spirits]. Oil on hardboard, 78 x 61.5 cm.
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Alexander von Riesen (Russian/German, 1892-1964), Wolkenformation mit versteckten Luftgeistern [Cloud Formation with Hidden Air Spirits]. Oil on hardboard, 78 x 61.5 cm.
![thunderstruck9:
“Alexander von Riesen (Russian/German, 1892-1964), Wolkenformation mit versteckten Luftgeistern [Cloud Formation with Hidden Air Spirits]. Oil on hardboard, 78 x 61.5 cm.
”](https://64.media.tumblr.com/aabfc2b4ab42e8517756c9d96c3ce1b7/ba0eb152e39dbae0-7b/s400x600/94cd45c658e283ce692b954ee5b56a6ffe239a40.jpg)
Alexander von Riesen (Russian/German, 1892-1964), Wolkenformation mit versteckten Luftgeistern [Cloud Formation with Hidden Air Spirits]. Oil on hardboard, 78 x 61.5 cm.

e.e. cummings, from “the first of all my dreams was of” (in 73 Poems), Complete Poems: 1904-1962
[Text ID: “–how you and i are blossoming”]
Maybe I’ve been afraid
to claim my body, afraid to be wildand break out into all this sky around me
Perhaps I can burst
through ceilings and glass, explode into joy?
— Marlanda Dekine, from “My Black, Rural, Queer Childhood,” Thresh & Hold