Insomniacs

Juarez Machado 

 Her doors are made with music, and barred round 

      With sighing and with laughter and with tears, 

 With tears whereby strong souls of men are bound. 

 A poem should be equal to: 

 Not true. 

 For all the history of grief 

 An empty doorway and a maple leaf. 

Treacy Ziegler




Jacob Kramer 


Charles Sheeler 


Federico Faruffini

Felice Casorati 


Maria Berrio 


Marius Borgeaud



Édouard Vuillard


Jacqueline Williams


Bernard Dunstan


Kees Van Dongen


Terry St. John

 "My boredom with everything has numbed me. 

 I feel banished from my soul." 

János Vaszary


Alexander Deineka 

 "I'm never where I feel  I am, and if I seek myself, 

 I don't know who's seeking me." 

Marie Jane Ansell


Achille-Émile Othon Friesz 


Linda Arthurs 

 I keep my kindness in my eyes  
 Gently folded around my iris  
 Like a velvety, brown blanket  
 That warms my vision  

Roy Fairchild-Woodard


1. line - Laus Veneris
2. extract from a poem of Archibald Macleish  
3. and 4. line - Fernando Pessoa
5. from a poem of Sanober Khan