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The head of Dionysus with fruit and ivy in his hair (central panel from tessellated floor of a Roman villa).

2nd half of the 2nd c. - 3rd c. A.C.

Archaeological Museum of Ancient Corinth

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Nights we could not sleep— summer insects singing in dry heat, short-circuiting the nerves—

Grandma would light a lamp, at the center of our narrow room, whose clean conspiracy of light

whispered to the tall blank walls, illuminating them suddenly like the canvas of a dream.

Between the lamp and wall her arthritic wrists grew pliant as she molded and cast

improbable animal shapes moving on the wordless screen: A blackbird, like a mynah, not a crow.

A dark horse’s head that could but would not talk. An ashen rabbit (her elusive self) triggered in snow

that a quivering touch (like death’s) sent scampering into the wings of that little theater of shadows

that eased us into dreams.

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Theater of Shadows

Derek N. Otsuji

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Graphic - Toyen (Marie Čermínová) 1902-1980

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2019 ariko nanakawa

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Sleeping satellite, Andreas Mühe

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Salvatore Tuzzo

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Nocturno . (Inspired by “Nocturnes”, a fantastic exhibition of photos at night in Spain from 1900-1960, at El Centre Cultural La Nau de la Universitat de València. Gracias a @_vicentevidal_ for taking me there!) (at Mercat Central de València) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZAX8BIoOBd/?utm_medium=tumblr