On [:] Fawn | Homer, c 660 BCE
Maggie Cole “A baby running after her mother, begging to be picked up,and she tugs on her skirts, holding her...
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On [:] Seek | Jean Baudrillard, 1980-85
Jan Frans Verhas, Hide and seek, 1855-96 “One of life's primal situations; the game of hide and seek. Oh, the...
On [:] Absence | Alejandro Zambra, 2014
Roger Duvoisin, At Daddy's Office, 1946 “Everyone fakes their absence.Old friends, enemies, or loverscould be in the same elevatorand never...
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...
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...