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a lamb named pam taurus • soft summer • 7w6

[bienenkiste]

Mazelle Spring 2023 backstage

Ph. Victor Edeh

[gacougnol]

David Hockney (British, born 1937)

[mournfulroses]

Kim Sowŏl, from a poem titled "The Road Away," featured in The Columbia Anthology of Modern Korean Poetry

[bobbole]

Vintage sacred heart french votive lamp

[enchanted-fairytale-dreams]

[derangedrhythms]

How do I know this? The dead fly in the windowsill told me, the grass pollen as it puffed into the air told me, a brass candlestick told me, a speck of grit. Everything remembers and speaks to those who will listen.

Olga Ravn, The Wax Child, tr. Martin Aitken

[sinofnervousretaliation]

— Charles Wright ; The Killing

[theinternetarchive]

california through the eyes of photographer sevilla brace shuey, american c. 1950s.

[archivearchangelica]

2008

[dustjacketlust]

Daniel Egnéus’s stunning illustrations for Little Red Riding Hood (part 1 of 2).

[hamletofficial]

In The Odyssey, Odysseus is extraordinary for the flexibility with which he can inhabit many different names, or no name at all. It is this quality of being multinamed and nameless that enables him to survive. By contrast, almost all the warriors of The Iliad yearn to have a name and a story that lasts forever. Their many names and titles, as sons and brothers and comrades and fathers and rulers, are essential to their identities, their connections with one another, and their fame after death. They fear, above all, being humiliated (cursed with a negative name), or forgotten and nameless. The lists and catalogs of names are essential to the poem’s own work, of memorializing and mourning the dead. Once the bodies return to dust, these syllables are all that remain.

– Emily Wilson, Translator's note for The Iliad.

[arte-artem-artibus]

Zao Wou-Ki - Flore and Faune, 1951, etching, 57.6 x 38.1 cm

[ancientcharm]

Baths of Pompeii

[undinesea]

These are my sanctuaries: music that stirs, nature that heals, poetry that whispers, and solitude that understands.

Marina Tsvetaeva, from a letter to poet Boris Pasternak

[lifeinpoetry]

Fear is a commitment, // but I have become its body.

— Saddiq Dzukogi, from Book One, Bakandamiya

[blondebrainpowered]

Mollusques, 1898

By Adolphe Millot

[unusual-suspects]

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