#averno

[flowerytale]

Louise Glück, from "Persephone the Wanderer", Averno

[wordscanbeenough]

Louise Glück, from "Blue Rotunda", Averno

[orpheuslament]

October, Louise Glück

[heavensghost]

Louise Glück

[yvain]

Louise Glück, excerpt from “A Myth of Innocence,” in Averno

[derangedrhythms]

Louise Glück, Averno; from ‘A Myth of Innocence'

[belovedapollo]

The Evening Star by Louise Glück

[weusedtobegiants]

My soul shattered with the strain of trying to belong to earth— What will you do, when it is your turn in the field with the god?

Louise Glück, from Averno

[darya-kf-games]

devil's jacuzzi

[hlblng]

Avernus - crater west of Naples, appears in Virgil's Aeneid as the entrance to the underworld

I made the background with liquid gold which only cost me 6 hours of my life and also the rest of my sanity. I will probably do it again.

[petaltexturedskies]

Summer after summer has ended, balm after violence: it does me no good to be good to me now; violence has changed me. Daybreak. The low hills shine ochre and fire, even the fields shine. I know what I see; sun that could be the August sun, returning everything that was taken away — You hear this voice? This is my mind's voice; you can't touch my body now. It has changed once, it has hardened, don't ask it to respond again.

Louise Glück, from October in “Averno”

[flowerytale]

Louise Glück, Averno

[bypatia]

Language was invented only so that Louise Glück could say, “a woman will return looking for the girl she was”

[orpheuslament]

October, Louise Glück

[heavensghost]

Louise Glück

[yvain]

Louise Glück, excerpt from “A Myth of Innocence,” in Averno