Ridolfo And Gismonda By J.C. Leyendecker (1906)

Liza Sivakova, ‘Anxiety’, Oil on canvas

you kept making yourself the victim

Josef Koudelka, France, 1970s

Devin Leonardi (American, 1981-2014) - Manassas Junction, 2009

But then you do get to read the books so that is nice

i feel like a trembling little mouse with a sword

It seemed to me that I had dreamt about her once, when I was a boy or a teenager: a dream with the scent of orange trees in blossom.

– Agustín Cadena, from “Murillo Park,” Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic (Small Beer Press, 2011)

missing him hour

Sky & Clouds painted by Théodore Gudin ☁️

Carl Bretzke, Highway 1, Oil on aluminum