This is a place for imaginings to meld with reality; a place where the senses are dulled and heightened and fused simultaneously; where fantasy and delight abound and wonder is the greatest gift you can receive.
Alrighty! I decided to make a masterpost for the lovely and talented Sylvia Plath. Here you will find the links I could find to her various works, journals, interviews, and readings. Please enjoy, and if there is any problem with the links or ones that could be added, please contact me via ask. :)
From my rotting body flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. —Edvard Munch
An immortal beloved, dovetailed wonder, cringing with decrepit grip for one more crescendo—I remember being a young thing when hearing Whitman, reciting his verse, And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death. E tu?
Does it occur to you that we’ve been born in blood, also? That life is a means to death—the passing second, the paradigm shift into something new, is decay? We feed this life entropy, yes— undressing our layers until there is no more body. Still believe our cries countless is weakness? On your knees
curling into a fetus as you once were, unto that fleshy shell, becoming single celled by the sound of a cloister bell. Is the end a means to achieving singularity, the black hole’s densest point, filled with the tightness of matter & light? How delightful—
considering how much mana we’ve absorbed up until that point, joining with our feral kin when we dream of garlands garnishing about our heads; not this time—fall was the big bang,
when I was reminded of the boys who bent my boughs, bowing low to their climbing, those young men crowned as kings as they held the taper of my longest finger pointing to Heaven, holding something sacred without my diadem of leaves. Here’s the fading flare, a mesh of despair & richness, fulfillment of refraction
fragmenting & splintering designs of an individual snowflake. At least we all can say there will never be another “me” or “I” to fill this trap, this laughter echoing—whether a mock or celebration the lows & highs of depression & elation. I cannot stress out this speech
any longer. I belong there. Yes, see that sun? Behind you, smoldering at the horizon line among a pink sky… Please enjoy the fruit that had fell from me so long ago. Please grow.