Poems

Lou Andreas-Salomé Surely, a friend loves a friend the way That I love you, enigmatic life — Whether I rejoiced...

Marie Laurencin (1885-1956) IN the greenest growth of the Maytime, I rode where the woods were wet, Between the dawn...

Lucian Freud, Man with a Feather (self-Portrait, age 21), 1943 "Hope" is the thing with feathers - That perches in...

Harry Redl, Kenneth Patchen with a collection of his painted books on the rooftop of his apartment house in San...

Josh Tonsfeldt, Untitled, 2011 . “The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing...

J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye / The Catcher in the Rye, 1951...

Hyacinths Music sounds in the distance; but silent night is here, The flowers waft slumber-scent at me; I have always,...

Suzuki Harunobu, Woman Admiring Plum Blossoms at Night, 18th century (detail) . The apparition of these faces ...

Andreas Embirikos, Paris, 1961 O the breasts of youthO the pallid waters of the fig-eatersThe cobblestones echo with...

Unknown, 1931 On my notebooks from school On my desk and the trees On the sand on the snow I...