Poems

Smallest doll in the world, early 1900s “There can be such a sky, and such A play of rays, that...

Petya Dubarova On Saturdays I'm unappreciated - wild, flexible, and lively as a lynx. And tiredness, having turned into a...

Detail of Antonio Canova’s Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss, 1787-1793 I don’t love you as if you were the salt-rose,...

Carlos Drummond de Andrade I used to consider absence a lack. And I ignorantly regretted that lack. Today I have...

Man Ray, Les Chapeaux, 1933 We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers...

Paul Klee, Pink Spring in deep Winter “Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.”...

Allen Ginsberg resting in bed, 1955 to Gary Snyder The red tin begging cup you gave me,...

Anonyme, A man smoking an opium pipe, n.d. This painting used to hang in the opium den run by Ah...

Roberto Bolaño My gift to you will be an abyss, she said, but it will be so subtle you’ll perceive...

Man Ray, Benjamin Fondane, 1928 Victor Brauner, The Head of Benjamin...