be.

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— jay vespertine; from the usual: full moon insanity

[nixscriptum]

[petaltexturedskies]

Zelda Fitzgerald, Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

[scribeherself]

[mournfulroses]

Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Mrs. Holland, featured in The Letters of Emily Dickinson

[literaryvein]

L. V., excerpts from a past life

[themodernartists]

Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973), Famille d’arlequin, 1905. Gouache and ink on card laid down on cradled panel.

[mournfulroses]

Anaïs Nin, from a letter to Henry Miller written c. January 1933, featured in A Literate Passion

[mournfulroses]

James Joyce, from a letter to Nora Barnacle Joyce, featured in The Selected Letters of James Joyce

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

[mournfulroses]

Rosa Chacel, from a diary entry featured in Diario, originally published in 1993

[greyoflight]

“The CAUSE OF DEATH was as follows: Exhaustion of Melancholia”

(1923 death certificate from New Brunswick, Canada)

[thyming]

[tenderlypressed]

[nixscriptum]

[strokeofserenity]

Sappho, “If Not Winter”

[last-picture-show]

Albert Monier, Vue des Bords de Seine, Paris, 1950