Kali-waya

by Mohd Naim

humans and their pets

“He’s rich.” When people asked how you took them, how you convinced them away from me. “He’s rich,” I’d say. “He’s rich.” And you don’t understand what the word means. They were young. They only knew appetite, and “Here,” you said, “Come with me. Gorge yourselves.” How could I compete with that? You didn’t feed them though, did you? You starved them. Less and less of them came back each time, until one day they were empty. They were syphoned. You started filling them up with… What did you fill them up with, Roderick? What did you have to fill them with? Because you weren’t rich, were you?

THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER | 1.08 “The Raven”

"Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever."

-from All the light we cannot see by Anthony Doerr

they're precious I'm crying

“Don’t let my silence wound you. I'm just tired of words.”

— Manuel Bandeira, from “This Earth, That Sky.”