Landscape with Willow Trees — Maximilien Luce (1887)

Tocharian B Love Poem, manuscript B496, 6th-7th C. CE

"…a thousand years, [you will] tell [our] story. [I thus announce, [here]tofore there was no human being dearer to me than [you]; likewise hereafter there will be no one dearer to [you] than [me]. [Your] love, [your] affection, [my] jubilant song rises up! Along with life [itself], this should not come to an end for [my] whole life. I was thinking: “I will live with one love well [for the whole of my] life, without any deceit, without…” The God [of Karma] alone recognized this, my thought. Thus he provoked a quarrel; it ripped out my heart [that belonged] to [you. I]t led [you] afar, it tore me apart, it turned me into a partaker of all sorrows; he took away the consolation [I had] in thee… my life, spirit, and heart, day-by-day…"

-Cf. the transcription and translation in J. P. Mallory and Victor H.Mair, The Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West (London: Thames & Hudson, 2000), p. 273.

chinese hanfu

Louise Glück, from “Aubade”, Poems 1962 - 2012

Nick Patten, 1953-

Poppi in Sunlight, 2018, oil on panel,  71.1×55.9 cm

Women Laudering by Alfred Sisley (1839 - 1899)

-Morning Walk-

Consider the other kingdoms. The trees, for example, with their mellow-sounding titles: oak, aspen, willow. Or the snow, for which the peoples of the north have dozens of words to describe its different arrivals. Or the creatures, with their thick fur, their shy and wordless gaze. Their infallible sense of what their lives are meant to be. Thus the world grows rich, grows wild, and you too, grow rich, grow sweetly wild, as you too were born to be.

Mary Oliver, "The Other Kingdoms", from The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays

-Amethyst-

Dress, ca. 1860

European, cotton

The MET Museum

-Thisbe-

“In the mist of the moon I saw you, […] And you were lovelier than the moon. You were darkness,”

— Langston Hughes, from In the Mist of the Moon.

Another day waking up with a Florence and the machine song in my head

A turquoise-blue brocaded satin robe a l'Anglaise

“the silk 1760s, but heavily modified construction, woven with meandering white blossom, the ground figured with leaf sprigs, with 1770s front bodice closure, 19th century boning and alterations, later added lace engageants, together with a reticule made from matching fabric”

Kerry Taylor Auctions

people born in 24 Are 2000 now

Arthur Bowen Davies - Driobe and her Handmaidens

I’ve been making gay knights (and dames) collages on my phone at work