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Elliott Erwitt. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 1950

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California wildfires, sunset & sunrise by Gary Robertson

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HAPPY 89th BIRTHDAY, my dearest Sylvia! ♥ RIP!

(27 October 1932, Boston, USA – 11 February 1963, London, UK)

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POPPIES IN OCTOBER

Even the sun-clouds this morning cannot manage such skirts. Nor the woman in the ambulance Whose red heart blooms through her coat so astoundingly — A gift, a love gift Utterly unasked for By a sky Palely and flamily Igniting its carbon monoxides, by eyes Dulled to a halt under bowlers. O my God, what am I That these late mouths should cry open In a forest of frost, in a dawn of cornflowers.

–Sylvia Plath, written 27 October 1962, in: Ariel, 1965

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Photo credits: Sylvia Plath photographed by studio photogapher Eric Stahlberg in Northampton, Massachusetts during her final months as a student at Smith College in May 1955

This and two other photographs by Stahlberg were sold at the Sotheby’s auction “Your Own Sylvia: Sylvia Plath’s letters to Ted Hughes and other items, property of Frieda Hughes” in July 2021 for 1,764GBP.

Image source: https://www.sothebys.com/