...collage of everything before you, frangipani
and escargot, five-for-a-dollar boxes
of macaroni, and French cherries
from an old woman in Auvergne
who insisted on the gift
because it was so marvelous
to see a woman traveling alone.
“Today in my heart
a vague trembling of stars
and all roses are
as white as my pain.”
Rupert Charles Wulsten Bunny
Mary (May) Wilson Watkins Preston
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art....
It has no survival value;
rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
'Art Studies'
Charles Baugniet
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends;
they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors,
and the most patient of teachers.”
Margaretha Roosenboom
Alfred Stevens
John White Alexander
Carlo Cressini
Walter Granville-Smith
Gustave Caillebotte
Minerva J. Chapman
Edouard Vuillard
Conrad Kiesel, 'The Lesson'
flowers disappeared
they are in the same
state of non-being
as Emily Dickinson
We the dead have conversation
in our gardens
about our lack of
existence.
Lesser Ury
1. excerpt from a poem of Leslie Adrienne Miller
2. line - Federico Garcia Lorca
3. quote - C.S.Lewis
4. quote - Charles WillimEliot
5. excerpt from a poem of Etel Adnan
