““Silence, I Discover, Is Something You Can Actually Hear.” - Haruki Murakami”

naxos. jun, 24.

“Firesouled, vermilion-hearted,”

— Amy Lowell, from A Dome of Many-coloured Glass; Before the Altar.

‘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)

Dancers by Franz von Stuck (1896)

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

shoe details @ laquan smith ss22

John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1 [originally published 1667]

Li-Young Lee, from “Persimmons”, Rose

May Sarton, from Journal of a Solitude [ID in alt text]

Jean Ranc, Portrait of Barbara of Portugal detail, ca. 1729