Mosaic From Pompeii; Circa 100 BC.

“Also everything returns, but what returns is not what went away—”

— Louise Glück, from A Travel Diary; Winter Recipes from the Collective: Poems, 2021

Victoria Chang, from "A Woman With a Bird", You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

Carl Friedrich Seiffert: The Blue Grotto on Capri (1860)

i remember that time you told me you said "love is touching souls" surely you touched mine 'cause part of you pours out of me in these lines from time to time oh, you're in my blood like holy wine

Early 1900s (+1) costume designs

Eclipse © 1979 Mark Roland

Oil on board. Painted after viewing an eclipse that year in Oakland CA.

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