Virginia Frances Sterrett, Old french fairy tales - 1920

Didn't even notice I was selected as an Editor's Pick for the Passage Prize III in Fiction. Thank you!? Omg. Sorry I don't pay attention to stuff..... (and am very easily distracted sometimes.) Thank you. Truly. ........ What do I do now?

Apollo e Dafne, 2020, by Roberto Ferri (detail)

“Nothing matters but the quality of the affection In the end—that has carved the trace in the mind. Dove sta memoria” -Ezra Pound, Canto LXXVI “Daphne” by Arthur Rackham (1921)

In honour of TS Eliot today: “And indeed there will be time To wonder, “Do I dare?” and, “Do I dare?” … Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. … And should I then presume? And how should I begin?”

Santiago Caruso

Carl Olof Larsson

William Robinson Leigh - "Swans" (1913)

The Swan, No. 1 - Hilma af Klint

Louis de Caullery

There are things that should remain sacred and unspoken. Sex and art are some of them.

“Rise above Birth and death. Knowing the God of Fire (…) The secret of the Fire that leads to heaven (…) That world is theirs alone. In that world, in all the worlds, they live in perfect freedom.” -The Upanishads (Death as Teacher/Sacred Song) R. Magritte “Memory” (1948)

Kiss sculpture in Vienna Central cemetery

“Our almost-instinct almost true: What will survive of us is Love.” -Philip Larkin (Les Amants by René Magritte, 1928)

Vestal Virgin, Guardian of the sacred fire by Angelo Martinetti (19th century)

"The First Day of Creation," by Portuguese artist and architect, Francisco de Holanda, 1545.