“Dark And Fair” By Tadeusz Styka (ca. 1908) Marthe Barnède, Nicknamed Madame Sappho, Is ‘a Stunning

Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh, 1940

I read the flecks in your eyes

like how a girl all alone

would read poetry.

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Your eyes tell an odyssey

of the thousand lies you've heard,

each one a dark star.

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Somewhere within your iris

there's an epic of pain and

love in equal parts.

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Eyes like the night sky.

I see the galaxy and

wonder where I could fit in.

Liberty and Fifth, Pittsburgh, ca. 1940

Reclining Nude by Alphonse Lecadre (1870)

Diana, Huntress by Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1879)

do you miss me like i miss you?

do you feel the same heartbreaking pain as i do?

or is it only me who feels this way?

Henri Gervex, Rolla (detail), 1878.

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux.

Reclining Odalisque by Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant (19th Century)

wet evening in April by Patrick Kavanagh