“Beneath half-watt rays,

Pound, “Medallion”

The eyes turn topaz.”

The caution

The temple of science; the gecko in the ceiling light

….Dickens, Bleak House

Homage to Edvard Munch, artist of “The Scream”

A.M.

Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass,
Be not afraid of my body.

Whitman, “As Adam Early in the Morning”

Gothic literature of the American South

Almost as scandalously humid as the weather in Truman Capote’s first novel was the jacket photograph of the author on his divan, in his bangs. More credit than he has received from history should go to the photographer, Harold Halma.

To trace the visionary company of love

Strange . . . *

* Frank O’Hara:

B&W

Hommage à Maggie Nelson

I lay on my bed, free of pain.

Then occurred the irreversible. In full extension at maximum velocity, as if following the plan of a torturer-coach, this George

leaped my body, using it as a springboard. Like a subordinate character in a myth by Faulkner, I had become adjunctive to the design.

And, because such is the nature of tragedy,

I still play my part.