Flying Dream, Queens, New York, 1971
Arthur Tress

Christmas Tree in Lobby, New York City, 1977
Joel Meyerowitz

Miss Mary and Lotte at the Hill Crest, ca. 1910
Heinrich Kuhn

Moulin Rouge, Paris, 1931
Ilse Bing

Portrait of Madeleine Mabille, 1888
Fernand Khnopff

Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
Ingmar Bergman

Les Pointes
Edgar Degas

Elevator, Miami Beach, 1955
Robert Frank

Kutztown, 1948
Saul Leiter

Synecdoche, New York (2008)
Charlie Kaufman

Nymphlight, 1957
Joseph Cornell and Rudy Burckhardt

Tilly Losch, c. 1935
Joseph Cornell

Tilly Losch, 1928
E. O. Hoppé

Untitled
Allan Davey

come and find me

if i could trace the line that ran
between your smile and your sleight of hand
i'd guess that you put something up my sleeve
now every time i see your face the bells ring in a far-off place
we can find each other this way i believe

from the hills and up behind, my town
is naked from the horizon down
the curvature is pressed against the raise
and we walked up in the fields alone
the silence fell just like a stone
that got lost in the wild blue and the gravel grey

come and find me now
come and find me now

though i'm here in this far-off place
my air is not your time and space
i draw you close with every breath
you don't know it's right until it's wrong
you don't know it's yours until it's gone
i didn't know that it was home ‘til you up and left

come and find me now
come and find me now

i keep you in a flower vase
your fatalism, crooked face
with the daisies and the violet brocades
and i keep me in a vacant lot
in the ivy's forget-me-nots
hoping you will come and untangle me one of these days

come and find me now
come and find me now

josh ritter

Providence, 1968
Harry Callahan

World's Fair, New York City, 1964
Garry Winogrand

A Summer Night, 1890
Winslow Homer

Seated Woman, ca. 1917
Elie Nadelman

On a Dutch Ferry, 1953
Louis Stettner

Celia, ca. 1944
John Graham

Sawdust and Tinsel (1953)
Ingmar Bergman

Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
Max Ophuls

Shame (1968)
Ingmar Bergman

Untitled
Miroslav Tichy

Portrait of Lee Miller, ca. 1927


Untitled, n.d.
Arnold Genthe

Young Girl Writing a Love Letter, c. 1755
Pietro Antonio Rotari

Mignon, 1900


Une Balleteuse, 1900
Robert Demachy

Le Notti Bianche (1957)
Luchino Visconte

The Virgin Suicides (1999)
Sofia Coppola

Love Song

Like the hills under dusk you
fall away from the light:
you deepen: the green
light darkens
and you are nearly lost:
only so much light as
stars keep
manifests your face:
the total night in
myself raves
for the light along your lips.

A.R. Ammons

Deena de dos, 1955
Willy Ronis

The Best Time of the Day

Cool summer nights.
Windows open.
Lamps burning.
Fruit in the bowl.
And your head on my shoulder.
These the happiest moments in the day.

Next to the early morning hours,
of course. And the time
just before lunch.
And the afternoon, and
early evening hours.
But I do love

these summer nights.
Even more, I think,
than those other times.
The work finished for the day.
And no one can reach us now.
Or ever.

Raymond Carver

Jacqueline Lisant, 1958
Pablo Picasso

Cathy, Mary, Barbara, 1975
Joseph Szabo

Woman Lying on a Divan, 1829
Joseph-Desire Court

Le Feu Follet (1963)
Louis Malle

The Beach at Palavas, 1854
Gustave Courbet


Harmony in Blue and Silver: Trouville, 1865
James McNeill Whistler

La Poetesse, 1972
Marc Chagall

The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)
Lotte Reiniger

In a landscape of having to repeat

In a landscape of having to repeat.
Noticing that she does, that he does and so on.
The underlying cause is as absent as rain.
Yet one remembers rain even in its absence and an attendant quiet.
If illusion descends or the very word you've been looking for.
He remembers looking at the photograph,
green and gray squares, undefined.
How perfectly ordinary someone says looking at the same thing or
I'd like to get to the bottom of that one.
When it is raining it is raining for all time and then it isn't
and when she looked at him, as he remembers it, the landscape moved      closer
than ever and she did and now he can hardly remember what it was      like.

Martha Ronk

Les Amants (1958)
Louis Malle

Do You Remember Dolly Bell? (1981)
Emir Kusturica

Dancers in Pink, c. 1883
Edgar Degas

Convertible, Westchester, New York, 1960s
George S. Zimbel

Paris, 1953
Willy Ronis

I Fidanzati (1963)
Ermanno Olmi