Lines for the Fortune Cookies | Frank O’Hara, 1962
Frank O'Hara, 1926-1966 . I think you’re wonderful and so does everyone else. Just as Jackie Kennedy has a baby...
Poems
The Deep Song | A poem by Georg Trakl, 1887-1914
Georg Trakl, Self portrait, 1913 . From deep night I was released. My soul is astonished in immortality, My soul...
Self-Reflection | A poem by Robert Walser, 1924-1933
Robert Walser by Joseph Pole, 2016 . Because they didn't want me to be young, I became young. Because i...
You Were Clear and Calm | A poem by Hans Arp, 1944
Hans Arp and Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Ascona, 1925 . You were clear and calm. Next to you, life was tender. When...
Overtures to Death, 5 | Cecil Day-Lewis, 1938
William Rothenstein (1872 - 1945), Portrait of Cecil Day Lewis . The sun came out in April The hawthorn in...
I Want to Write About You | A poem by Halina Poświatowska, 1935-1967
Halina Poświatowska, 1957 . I want to write about you With your name to prop the crooked fence The...
The Black Man | A poem by Sergei Yesenin, 1925
Sergei Yesenin (1895-1925) . My friend, my friend, How sick I am. Nor do I know Whence came this sickness....
The Wind | A poem by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1913
Ethel Spowers, Kites, 1936 . I saw you toss the kites on high And blow the birds about the sky;...
Dance like a flame | A poem by William Butler Yeats, 1894
Imre Benkő, Ballerina, 1977 . “Faeries, come take me out of this dull world, For I would ride with you...
Friendly Advice to a Lot of Young Men | A poem by Charles Bukowski, 1957
David Wojnarowicz, Self Portrait. 1983-85 . Go to Tibet. Ride a camel. Read the bible. Dye your shoes blue. Grow...