Richard Siken - Blog Posts
good omens + richard siken quotes
“and you’re trying to choke down the feeling, and you’re trembling, but he reaches over and touches you like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you’ve discovered something you don’t have a name for”
i love this website because i could say something like richard siken said you’re in the car with a beautiful boy and he won’t tell you but he loves you that virginia woolf wrote yes yes yes i do like you. i am afraid to write the stronger word. and that love has always felt like this and you’re not broken
richard siken admitting to writing johnlock and supernatural fanfiction was not on my 2023 bingo card but like could he drop the ao3
RICHARD SIKEN HAS A POETRY BOOK COMING OUT THIS AUTUMN!!!! OMG!!!!
either way by odie leigh // jeff buckley // normal people by sally rooney // unknown, possibly natalie diaz // eternal sunshine of the spotless mind (2004) // old friend by mitski // halloween by phoebe bridgers // unknown // unknown
reinventing yourself as a violent act
destroyed by hippie powers, car seat headrest // @/angelcommunist // portrait of fryderyk in shifting light, richard siken
tell me we'll never get used to it
The body will hold on Frank Turner, The Fisher King Blues // Don DeLilo, White Noise // Maurice Pirenne, Evening // The Crane Wives, How to Rest // Richard Siken // StarParkDesigns // Birdtalker, Heavy // Dan Clandenin, The Voice of God
Because the story of your life // becomes your life
- Lisel Mueller
Phoebe Bridgers, I Know The End / Augusto Boal, Theatre of the Oppressed / Lisel Mueller, Why We Tell Stories / Sleeping at Last, East / Pat Barker, Silence of the Girls / Brandon Melendez, How to Write the Quantum Mechanics Uncertainty Principle into a Promise to Return Home / Lisel Mueller, The Story / Richard Siken, Litany in Which Certain Things are Crossed Out
y’all the new richard siken poems are so goddamned sad (and also so fucking good, as expected) y’gotta read them.
driveway
heart valve
gun case
SOBBING ABOUT ORV AGAIN
here's the next part of my orv collection tagging @chocolatemalt because my darling your tags give me life. no, btw. it's still not over yet, i've got so many remaining
link to part 1, part 2 and a webweave i made out of story snippets that is yoo joonghyuk centric. also, part 4. (this one is part 3)
poem about parents.
I’ve seen your true face: the back of your head. If you were walking away, keep walking.
Richard Siken, War of the Foxes (via fitinmypoems)
I clawed my way into the light but the light is just as scary. I’d rather quit. I’d rather be sad. It’s too much work.
Richard Siken, from “Self-Portrait Against Red Wallpaper,” War of the Foxes (via joolabee)
Richard Siken, from Scheherazade in “Crush”
u suck + u do not have a brother + you have never experienced anything this ferocious or intentional with another person
these, our bodies, possessed by light
I am the fire, says the fire. My body is a graveyard,
says the landscape. You’re welcome, says the landscape.
- Richard Siken, Landscape with Several Small Fires
Never finish a war without starting another.
Richard Siken, Birds Hover the Trampled Field
When you have nothing to say, set something on fire.
Richard Siken, Landscape with Fruit Rot and Millipede
I wish I had something else. A redemptive imagination
Richard Siken, Landscape with Fruit Rot and Millipede
To make something beautiful should be enough. It isn't. It should be.
Richard Siken, Landscape with a Blur of Conquerors
NOOO RICHARD SIKEN DON'T FALL TO THE GLUE TRAP
birds hover the trampled field / richard siken
richard siken / snow and dirty rain
i felt like i was a little freak with all my pent up queer longing and desire and then i read richard siken’s poetry and realized i am still a little freak i’m just not skilled enough to lyrically spell it out, but rather i let it spill out like a malfunctioning factory machine whenever it gets quiet
is anyone else disgusted by the enormity of their desire or is it just me & richard siken