A burning desire to return to white...

Edgar Degas


     ...into my body at the bottom of the water
I attract the beyonds of mirrors...






Ruth Shively


Jason Shawn Alexander 






Everett Shinn 

Frederick Carl Frieseke

       

           Absence of water, presence of...
(...)

Of all the tendernesses at the end there was that bouquet of

wild orchids the constant ritual the washing the turning

of the body so cleansed by a lover's hands...

Pierre Bonnard






Dagmar Cyrulla


Anthony Yates


You remember too much, (...)

Why hold onto all that? And I said,  

Where can I put it down?"







Raphael Soyer 

 ...the lungs tighten in our awe

it's all there but spirit saying goodbye are you gone it's

difficult to tell you must be.


Alfred Stevens le bain

title - Mary Hogan
1. line - Rilke
2. and 4.  excerpts from a poem of Valerie Martinez
3. line - Anne Carson