Pink: an optical illusion of the numinous
cat
whose strenuous tongue / Can burst Joy’s grape against his palate fine
Dim
For the history of emotion, this is the novel by Henry Mackenzie which set Georgian England a-weeping. On the British Library’s site the image of the title page is dim, as if seen through tears.
For how hard it is to see, let alone to love.
Nibling
Russet Lawns, and Fallows Gray,
Where the nibling flocks do stray
Having been read
The poem by Rilke
Mere life is wonder enough
