On [:] Bliss | Sylvia Plath, 1932-63
John Nash, The Viaduct, c 1916 “On the train: staring hypnotized at the blackness outside the window, feeling the incomparable...
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On [:] April Fool | Rhyme
Marc Johns, Half of a fish costume April Fool, go to school,Tell your mother you’re a fool! April Fool’s a-coming...
On [:] The Metaphysics of Chocolates | Alvaro de Campos, 1928
Sigmar Polke “Eat your chocolates, little girl,Eat your chocolates!Believe me, there’s no metaphysics on earth like chocolates,And all religions put...
On [:] Scent | Henry David Thoreau, 1862
Lisa Benson, Apple crumble tree “The flowers of the apple are perhapsthe most beautiful of any tree's, socopious and so...
On [:] Become | Sam Shepard, 1982
Christina Kalbari, Hotel hall (afternoon), 2023 “People here have become thepeople they're pretending to be.” Sam Shepard, Motel Chronicles, 1982
On [:] Death Ritual | Mikhail Bakhtin, 1963
Federico Beltrán Masses, Carnival, 1925 “Deeply ambivalent also is the image of fire in carnival. It is a fire that...
On [:] Silence | Erich Segal, 1970
Dee Nickerson, First Snow, 2018 “There was a brief silence.I think I heard snow falling.” Erich Segal, Love Story, 1970 Also:Instant...
On [:] Appear | Jean-Paul Sartre, 1938
Leon Spilliaert, Autoportrait, 1908 “Perhaps it is impossible to understand one’s own face. People who live in society have learned...
On [:] Reverse | Leo Tolstoy, 1867
Diego Velázquez, Las Meninas (The Ladies-in-waiting), 1656 “Perhaps you are right for yourself,” he added after a short pause, “but...
On [:] Expectation | William Shakespeare, 1623
Stelios Faitakis, Landscape, 2008 “What I can do can do no hurt to try, Since you set up your rest...