#Safia Elhillo

[flowerytale]

Safia Elhillo from “Geneva”, Girls That Never Die: Poems

#safia elhillo #girls that never die #poetry #poets #poem #typo #typography #*

[lifeinpoetry]

I am hungry for touch & ashamed to be looked at

— Safia Elhillo, from "Summer," Girls That Never Die

#quote #Safia Elhillo #poetry #Girls That Never Die #out of my collection #Summer

[facinaoris]

Girls That Never Die: Poems, Safia Elhillo

#girls that never die #safia elhillo #poetry #typographyedit #typoedit #typography #typo #words #* #1k

[stillorbitingu]

Vocabulary, Safia Elhillo

#safia elhillo #poetry #the January children #swana art #Sudan #Arabic #on language #Arabic music #on love #on home

[feral-ballad]

Safia Elhillo, from Girls That Never Die: Poems; “Orpheus”

[Text ID: “My body is something / I have worn / for other people.”]

#safia elhillo #tw: body talk #excerpts #writings #literature #poetry #fragments #selections #words #quotes #typography #poetry collection

[tendermimi]

Safia Elhillo, Taxonomy

#safia elhillo #poetry #poem #writings #excerpts #words #quotes #girls that never die #girlhood #tenderness

[sicknessinmotion]

YOU'RE GUILTY OF A CRIME YOUR FATHER COMMITTED; ON SHAME & GUILT

sierra demulder // james baldwin // the mountain goats // dragan bibin // safia elhillo // ursula k. le guin // cynthia cruz

#on guilt #on shame #webweaving #sierra demulder #james baldwin #the mountain goats #dragan bibin #safia elhillo #ursula k. le guin #cynthia cruz

[raeiyyn]

on silence

1. mieko shiomi, music for two players, 1963 (via @neo-catharsis ) 2. via @minuty 3. safia elhillo, "girls that never die: poems; geneva" 4. blue, 2002, dir. hiroshi ando 5. hélène cixous, "selected plays of hélène cixous: portrait of dora" 6. car sear headrest, 1937 state park (via @oozins ) 7. helena c moon 8. via pinterest 9. takuboku ishikawa, "romaji diary and sad toys"

#being haunted #mine #on silence #mieko shiomi #music for two players #safia elhillo #blue 2002 #hiroshi ando #hélène cixous #car seat headrest #1937 state park #helena c moon #takuboku ishikawa #parallels* #web weaves #web weaving #wong kar wai #compilations #moodboard #mb* #literature #art #japanese literature #writings

[absenthiium]

on want on shame

you are jeff, richard siken / drawn to you, woodkid / dante et virgile, william-adolphe bouguereau / creophagy, angelica alzona / birds hover the trampled field, richard siken/ true detective, s1 / "flesh and the mirror" from burning your boats: the collected short stories, angela carter / untitled, milton / "summer" from girls that never die, safia elhillo.

#web weaving #richard siken #you are jeff #woodkid #dante and virgil in hell #angelica alzona #true detective #true detective season 1 #angela carter #safia elhillo #yes there's a quote of mine to #i am that egocentric #queer #queer poetry

[flowerytale]

Safia Elhillo, from Spring

#safia elhillo #poetry #poem #spring #fragments #*

[april-is]

April 1, 2024: vocabulary, Safia Elhillo

vocabulary Safia Elhillo

fact:

the arabic word هواء (hawa) means wind thearabicwordهوى (hawa) means love

  test: (multiple choice)   abdelhalim said you left me holding wind in my hands                           or   abdelhalim said you left me holding love in my hands

           abdelhalim was left                empty                                              or            abdelhalim was left                full

  fairouz said                   o wind, take me to my country                            or   fairouz said                   o love, take me to my country

           fairouz is looking for             vehicle                                              or            fairouz is looking for             fuel

  oum kalthoum said       where the wind stops her ships, we stop ours                            or   oum kalthoum said       where love stops her ships, we stop ours

                oum kalthoum is           stuck                                                    or                 oum kalthoum is           home

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This is, uh, the 20th year of this project??? See many years of past selections by browsing the archives or exploring the poems sent on today's date in:

2023: Reasons to Live Through the Apocalypse, Nikita Gill 2022: New Year, Kate Baer 2021: Instructions on Not Giving Up, Ada Limón 2020: Motto, Bertolt Brecht 2019: Separation, W.S. Merwin 2018: Good Bones, Maggie Smith 2017: Better Days, A.F. Moritz 2016: Jenny Kiss’d Me, Leigh Hunt 2015: The Night House, Billy Collins 2014: Tim Riggins Speaks of Waterfalls, Nico Alvarado 2013: Nan Hardwicke Turns Into a Hare, Wendy Pratt 2012: A Short History of the Apple, Dorianne Laux 2011: New York Poem, Terrance Hayes 2010: On Wanting to Tell [ ] about a Girl Eating Fish Eyes, Mary Szybist 2009: A Little Tooth, Thomas Lux 2008: The Sciences Sing a Lullabye, Albert Goldbarth 2007: Elegy of Fortinbras, Zbigniew Herbert 2006: When Leather is a Whip, by Martin Espada 2005: Parents, William Meredith

Thank you for being here!

#language #arabic #but it was just the 15th year like yesterday #how how! #safia elhillo

[lifeinpoetry]

My body is something I have worn

for other people.

— Safia Elhillo, from "Orpheus," Girls That Never Die

#quote #Safia Elhillo #poetry #Girls That Never Die #out of my collection #Orpheus

[facinaoris]

Girls That Never Die: Poems, Safia Elhillo

#girls that never die #safia elhillo #poetry #typographyedit #typoedit #typography #typo #words #* #1k

[geryone]

Girls That Never Die, Safia Elhillo

#quotes #quote #poetry #poem #Safia Elhillo

[feral-ballad]

Safia Elhillo, from Girls That Never Die: Poems; “Geneva”

[Text ID: “To ask for help would be to speak & of course we never spoke.”]

#safia elhillo #shame #fear #girlhood #womanhood #excerpts #writings #literature #poetry #fragments #selections #words #quotes #typography #poetry collection

[tendermimi]

Safia Elhillo, Girls That Never Die

#safia elhillo #poem #poetry #writings #excerpts #quotes #words #arabic poetry #girls that never die #girlhood