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yearsofmagicalthinking:

other-wordly:

pronunciation | ‘os-tra-“nen-E
note | generally used as an art term
Russian | остранение

Ostranenie.

yearsofmagicalthinking:

other-wordly:

pronunciation | koy nO yO-kan
submitted by | sterlingfink
submit words | here

Koi no yokan

theparisreview:

It’s raining hard today.
The day is more like night,
the spring is more like fall,
and in the yard a driving wind lays waste
to the little tree that, seeming not to, stands
steady and firm; it seems among the plants
like a too-green adolescent grown too tall.
You watch it. It may be
your pity stirs for all of those white flowers
the north wind strips from it; and they are fruit,
sweet preserves we set
aside for winter, those fallen flowers spread
across the grass. And your vast maternity
aches for them, all.

—Umberto Saba, “The Little Tree”
Photography Credit Mark Steinmetz

yearsofmagicalthinking:

other-wordly:

pronunciation | \zEn-‘zUkt\
submitted by | sehnsucht [thewitchnebula] and Life Ruining via the BBC [liferuiningviabbc]
submit words | here
with thanks to | c.s. lewis

Sehnsucht