Starlings, Autumn 2002
Edward Dimsdale

After the Shower, n.d.
Edward Mitchell Bannister

Woman and Cats, 1962
Will Barnet

My Life To Live (1962)
Jean-Luc Godard

jesus, etc.

jesus, don't cry
you can rely on me honey
you can combine anything you want

i'll be around
you were right about the stars
each one is a setting sun

tall buildings shake
voices escape singing sad sad songs
tuned to chords strung down your cheeks
bitter melodies turning your orbit around

don't cry
you can rely on me honey
you can come by anytime you want

i'll be around
you were right about the stars
each one is a setting sun

tall buildings shake
voices escape singing sad sad songs
tuned to chords strung down your cheeks
bitter melodies turning your orbit around

voices whine
skyscrapers are scraping together
your voice is smoking
last cigarettes are all you can get
turning your orbit around

our love
our love
our love is all we have

our love
our love is all of god's money
everyone is a burning sun

tall buildings shake
voices escape singing sad sad songs
tuned to chords strung down your cheeks
bitter melodies turning your orbit around

voices whine
skyscrapers are scraping together
your voice is smoking
last cigarettes are all you can get
turning your orbit around

last cigarettes are all you can get
turning your orbit around
last cigarettes are all you can get
turning your orbit around

from yankee hotel foxtrot -
wilco

The Seventh Seal (1957)
Ingmar Bergman

Subway Lovers, New York, 1949
Arthur Leipzig

Portrait of Andre Breton with spectacles, 1924

(Author unknown)


All the Schoolgirls Together

Often you say making a mark in the earth with your heel as
          the wild rose blooms in a bush
Wild one seemingly made only of dew
You say The whole sea and the whole sky for a single
Victory of childhood in the country of dance or better for a

          single
Embrace in a train corridor

Going to the devil with rifle shots on a bridge or better

Yet for a single timorous word
Such as must be said while gazing at you
By a blood-stained man whose name goes far from tree to
          tree
Who keeps going in and out among a hundred birds of snow
Where then is it nice
And when you say it the whole sea and the whole sky
Scatter like a cloud of little girls in the yard of a strict
          boarding school

After a dictation in which The heart takes

Was perhaps written The heart aches

-Andre Breton

The Blue Gown, 1917
Frederick Frieseke