[kafk-a]

Nancy Willard, from “Questions My Son Asked Me, Answers I Never Gave Him”

[fyblackwomenart]

Flamenco Dancer by J.C. Arter

Circa 1900

[metamorphesque]

"You Always Meet Your Love Perchance", Paruyr Sevak (translated by Tathev Simonyan)

[derangedrhythms]

There isn’t a version of me that could’ve looked away from you.

Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep

[gogumagirl]

[wildescarlett]

Do I look gay enough yet?

[dortan-lavancia]

Jean Baptiste GREUZE (Paris 1725 - Tournus 1805)

[madgirlscosm-deactivated2025051]

(excerpted from Leila Chatti's poem: "Tea", published in Missouri Review)

[wildescarlett]

What's a girl gotta do to find a wife??

[frostedmagnolias]

any old paintings of two women that I can interpret as secret (or not so secret) lesbian lovers, I will do so.

[passioflos]

Anne Carson, Eros. The Bittersweet.

[nixscriptum]

[metamorphesque]

The Gardener 85, Rabindranath Tagore

[la-belle-histoire]

Princess Hélène of Orléans, 1905.

[robert-hadley]

Rosamund by Walter Crane for Jeffrey & Co, 1908. Block-printed wallpaper.

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

"She always imagined herself as walking at leisure in the shade of the orchards watching the peaches ripen; she spoke with longing of clipping the rosebushes, or of tying up the trellised honeysuckle with her own hands."

~ Katherine Anne Porter, "The Old Order" from The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter (1964)

[existential-celestial]

“Everything rough becomes delicate when you love it. More roses, more roses, more roses.”

— Juan Ramón Jiménez, tr by Robert Bly, from “Parsley Crown,” wr. c. 1916