Mary Oliver, From “We Should Be Well Prepared”, Red Bird

‘three fair-cheeked Kharites…from whose eyes as they glanced flowed love that unnerves the limbs’

- hesiod, theogony

The Three Graces - detail from La Primavera, Sandro Botticelli (Uffizi Gallery, Firenze)

jean-Jacques Bachelier

Anis Mojgani, In the Pockets of Small Gods

Mieko Kawakami, from 'Heaven'

photo by G. Riebecke, 1929

from The Dog In Photography 1839 - Today

Velimir Khlebnikov, Collected Works, Vol. 3: Selected Poems, tr. by Paul Schmidt

Mary Meriam, from “A Poem”

Joanna Klink, from “Night Sky”, The Nightfields