Derrick Austin is a Colby Fellow and MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Michigan. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Unsplendid, Tampa Review Online, Knockout, Crab Orchard Review, and other journals. He is also an assistant poetry editor at The Nervous Breakdown.Tumblr (3.0; @themadscene)http://themadscene.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbvw7gIo4L1qc94oqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote> <div><small><em>John Keats</em>, <em>from a letter to Fanny Brawne in which he writes: “I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.”</em></small></div> </blockquote> <p></p>http://themadscene.tumblr.com/post/51206179167http://themadscene.tumblr.com/post/51206179167Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:59 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/6a5d8fbb8bc237fefcd2c5618ad83347/tumblr_mmjvxgA8Zu1r4y7c7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://fagcity.tumblr.com/post/51166288813/queer-root">fagcity</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>QUEER ROOT</p> </blockquote>http://themadscene.tumblr.com/post/51172246986http://themadscene.tumblr.com/post/51172246986Thu, 23 May 2013 16:03:42 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/ca75c8f659487fcb0c6936cf7637126d/tumblr_mn9g0oWTMV1qb3q4eo1_400.gif"/><br/><br/>http://themadscene.tumblr.com/post/51164150425http://themadscene.tumblr.com/post/51164150425Thu, 23 May 2013 14:10:24 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/84211da7b3e549434b3d84828e1f37ac/tumblr_mijukelxfW1rnav7ro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://myimaginarybrooklyn.tumblr.com/post/43615181478/a-bramble-from-the-illuminated-byzantine">myimaginarybrooklyn</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>A bramble, from the illuminated Byzantine manuscript ‘Vienna Dioscorides.’ (CE 512)</p> </blockquote>http://themadscene.tumblr.com/post/51154266368http://themadscene.tumblr.com/post/51154266368Thu, 23 May 2013 11:16:09 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/96e6c12333ab13113e301788da75bf66/tumblr_mkurcmhMcK1rs1gaeo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://losed.tumblr.com/post/47391729746/by-edouard-boubat">losed</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><em><strong>by Édouard Boubat</strong></em></p> </blockquote>http://themadscene.tumblr.com/post/51154132020http://themadscene.tumblr.com/post/51154132020Thu, 23 May 2013 11:13:40 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lr2eg9LyNB1r0ioluo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://themadscene.tumblr.com/post/51134206610http://themadscene.tumblr.com/post/51134206610Thu, 23 May 2013 01:53:05 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/050b499515183985cbd1fecf751946c3/tumblr_mn42mnXogU1rj0fm8o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://themadscene.tumblr.com/post/51126113500http://themadscene.tumblr.com/post/51126113500Wed, 22 May 2013 23:05:01 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/6f334f60e04d5f265aaa8f4da585a35a/tumblr_ml78pmW0zv1qzkueso1_r2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/40f3f78161b04aa70747fe42140a8028/tumblr_ml78pmW0zv1qzkueso2_r4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><blockquote> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <p><small>Julianne Moore for Rika Magazine, Spring 2013</small></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote>http://themadscene.tumblr.com/post/51056574859http://themadscene.tumblr.com/post/51056574859Wed, 22 May 2013 02:27:28 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/3cd7537f7cf3bb4e236c73ed199c5552/tumblr_mk3m8gEJU81r1cbfzo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://apoetreflects.tumblr.com/post/51054678998/painting-georgia-okeeffe-pink-sweet-peas-1926" class="tumblr_blog">apoetreflects</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>Painting: <strong>Georgia O’Keeffe</strong>, <em>Pink Sweet Peas, </em>1926</p></blockquote>http://themadscene.tumblr.com/post/51055912573http://themadscene.tumblr.com/post/51055912573Wed, 22 May 2013 02:06:42 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/f35454892f996cc32bab094e3a4d777f/tumblr_mm6e0o3yc71rbrhnko1_500.gif"/><br/><br/>http://themadscene.tumblr.com/post/50881415967http://themadscene.tumblr.com/post/50881415967Sun, 19 May 2013 22:44:04 -0500<iframe class="tumblr_audio_player tumblr_audio_player_50880423850" src="http://themadscene.tumblr.com/post/50880423850/audio_player_iframe/themadscene/tumblr_mn27qg8Nrq1qe31lc?audio_file=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tumblr.com%2Faudio_file%2Fthemadscene%2F50880423850%2Ftumblr_mn27qg8Nrq1qe31lc" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" scrolling="no" width="500" height="85"></iframe><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://likeafieldmouse.com/post/50841090211/erik-satie-gymnopedies-nos-1-2-3-pascal">likeafieldmouse</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Erik Satie - <em>Gymnopedies (Nos. 1, 2 & 3)</em> - Pascal Roge</p> <p>1. <em>Lent et douloureux</em></p> <p>2.<em> Lent et triste</em></p> <p>3.<em> Lent et grave</em></p> </blockquote>http://themadscene.tumblr.com/post/50880423850http://themadscene.tumblr.com/post/50880423850Sun, 19 May 2013 22:30:28 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8ik4ueGBu1r251tno1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://luz-natural.com/post/50821349968" class="tumblr_blog">luz-natural</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>Yes, </p></blockquote>http://themadscene.tumblr.com/post/50822874083http://themadscene.tumblr.com/post/50822874083Sun, 19 May 2013 10:00:44 -0500<a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/25662#.UZjl7DIhs9Q.tumblr">Insect Life of Florida by Lynda Hull : Poetry Magazine</a>http://themadscene.tumblr.com/post/50822017900http://themadscene.tumblr.com/post/50822017900Sun, 19 May 2013 09:47:13 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/4f92da7d4663cd6c0f4688e2d9d40f80/tumblr_mmwo9ujrEi1qgyrvuo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://themadscene.tumblr.com/post/50821934371http://themadscene.tumblr.com/post/50821934371Sun, 19 May 2013 09:45:52 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/fa0e500ceb3b7e3f032d4714faa6e565/tumblr_mmun09hh8N1rsl00eo1_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://themadscene.tumblr.com/post/50821800531http://themadscene.tumblr.com/post/50821800531Sun, 19 May 2013 09:43:42 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/4716b04acc3f08bbf3723b4ab7745124/tumblr_mmsuv2KEeH1qag9hro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://malebeautyinart.tumblr.com/post/50723422359/paul-gauguin-young-man-with-a-flower-behind-his" class="tumblr_blog">malebeautyinart</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>Paul Gauguin, Young Man with a Flower Behind His Ear, 1891</p></blockquote>http://themadscene.tumblr.com/post/50731881778http://themadscene.tumblr.com/post/50731881778Sat, 18 May 2013 10:03:37 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/9f27de18f1e8fb506a406b0f554d8c98/tumblr_mmkihdcisI1qblr1ho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.theotherpaul.com/post/50626950120/hello" class="tumblr_blog">paullegault</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>Hello</p></blockquote>http://themadscene.tumblr.com/post/50660647458http://themadscene.tumblr.com/post/50660647458Fri, 17 May 2013 12:02:47 -0500<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://aestiva.tumblr.com/post/50650545389">aestiva</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>The young composer, working that summer at an artist’s colony, had <br/><span>watched her for a week. She was Japanese, a painter, almost sixty, and <br/></span><span>he thought he was in love with her. He loved her work, and her work <br/>was </span><span>like the way she moved her body, used her hands, looked at him directly <br/></span><span>when she made amused or considered answers to his questions. One<br/></span><span>night, walking back from a concert, they came to her door and she <br/></span><span>turned to him and said, “I think you would like to have me. I would like <br/></span><span>that too, but I must tell you I have had a double mastectomy,” and <br/></span><span>when he didn’t understand, “I’ve lost both my breasts.” The radiance <br/></span><span>that he had carried around in his belly and chest cavity—like music—<br/></span><span>withered, very quickly, and he made himself look at her when he said, <br/></span><span>“I’m sorry. I don’t think I could.” He walked back to his own cabin <br/></span><span>through the pines, and in the morning he found a small blue bowl on the <br/></span><span>porch outside his door. It looked to be full of rose petals, but he found <br/></span><span>when he picked it up that the rose petals were on top; the rest of the <br/></span><span>bowl—she must have swept them from the corners of her studio—was <br/></span><span>full of dead bees.<br/><br/><br/><br/>—Robert Hass<br/>(source: <a href="http://www2.moreheadstate.edu/files/library/news/body.pdf">Morehead State</a> via Jerry, belatedly)</span></p> </blockquote>http://themadscene.tumblr.com/post/50660018558http://themadscene.tumblr.com/post/50660018558Fri, 17 May 2013 11:50:53 -0500<iframe src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F92022909&liking=false&sharing=false&origin=tumblr" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" class="soundcloud_audio_player" width="500" height="116"></iframe><br/><br/><p>Miss Kelly gets real.</p>http://themadscene.tumblr.com/post/50559248999http://themadscene.tumblr.com/post/50559248999Thu, 16 May 2013 00:23:29 -0500SoundCloudKellyRowlandOfficialR&b/hip HopKellyRowlandDirty<iframe src="//www.tumblr.com/video/themadscene/50474976010/400" id="tumblr_video_iframe_50474976010" class="tumblr_video_iframe" width="400" height="224" style="display:block;background-color:transparent;overflow:hidden;" allowTransparency="true" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Solange - Locked in Closets</p>http://themadscene.tumblr.com/post/50474976010http://themadscene.tumblr.com/post/50474976010Tue, 14 May 2013 23:06:00 -0500SolangeSolange KnowlesLocked in ClosetsTrue