subtextures by subtext

Commentary on Contexts and Subtexts Poetry Blog: www.subtextures.com

[bowieography]

Dick Cavett Show, November 1974

1984

[subtextures]

“In the ordinary jumble of my literary drawer, I sometimes find texts I wrote ten, fifteen, or even more years ago. And many of them seem to me written by a stranger: I simply do not recognize myself in them. There was a person who wrote them, and it was I. I experienced them, but it was in another life, from which I just woke up, as if from someone else’s dream.”

— Fernando Pessoa

[rfsnyder]

B. Prabha

[datasoong47]

[rfsnyder]

Nollendorfplatz at Night by Ury Lesser, 1925 Oil on canvas

[rfsnyder]

Akrobaten, Grotesker Balanceakt ~ Acrobats, Grotesque Act of Balance by Martel Schwichtenberg, ca1922

[subtextures]

Voices

no one is here 

to whisper,

yet the words come

slowly, inexorably 

as if I mattered—

as if any one

mattered

(July 18 2026)

[blondebrainpowered]

Siouxsie and the Banshees - Dear Prudence, 1983

[nateliewood]

[hollyhocksandtulips]

Natalie Wood

[irenelichtensteinblog]

Godfrey Frankel, Lexington & 110th Street, 1947

[le-retour-de-ki]

Marc Chagall: La danse.

[worldsandemanations]

Anne Sexton

[littlehorrorshop]

Clara Bow in Kid Boots (1926)

[mutant-what-not]

[cerebralpaulzie]

[subtextures]

No One Sees Us as We Are

She said I can’t imagine you young in school a time when you didn’t know everything— * I know less and less each year he thought so much con

[arthistoryfeed]

Andrey Remnev, The Unplaiting of the Hair, 1997. Egg tempera and oil on canvas, 100x100 cm.