Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Her Lips Are Copper Wire

whisper of yellow globes
gleaming on lamp-posts that sway
like bootleg licker drinkers in the fog

and let your breath be moist against me
like bright beads on yellow globes

telephone the power-house
that the main wires are insulate

(her words play softly up and down
dewy corridors of billboards)

then with your tongue remove the tape
and press your lips to mine
till they are incandescent

Jean Toomer
1923

Study for Raphael and the Fornarina, ca. 1814
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Saturday, September 26, 2009


Denise Levertov

Friday, September 25, 2009


Found photo
Dated May 19, 1933

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Saturday, September 12, 2009


Study of a Model, 1934
Henri Matisse

Friday, September 11, 2009


Le Chignon, ca. 1865-70
Eva Gonzalès

I.G. (Isa Genzken), 1993
Gerhard Richter

Woman Standing in Front of a Mirror, 1841
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg

Tuesday, September 8, 2009


A Game of Patience, 1937
Meredith Frampton

Sunday, September 6, 2009


Mrs. Thomas B. Sherman, 1931
Joe Jones

Friday, September 4, 2009


Three Women in Bonnets on Bench, New York City, ca. 1928-30
Walker Evans


Thursday, September 3, 2009


Amour - Nos âmes en des gestes lents, 1898
Maurice Denis

Tuesday, September 1, 2009


Portrait of Leonilla, Princess of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn, 1843
Franz Xaver Winterhalter