– Audrey Hepburn

And then—you walked in.

You, with your glittering chaos.

The oracle who keeps unfolding

Can I still be good and want you?

Lucy Willis, 1954,  Cats, 1988, etching on paper.

August 1959

Afterthoughts on the Lovers

By Lisel Mueller

Necessity may be the mother of invention

But desire is the mother of transformation

be the surreal nonsense you wish to see in the world

Fyodor Dostoevsky, from a letter featured in Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoevsky to his Family & Friends

Anne Truitt, from a diary entry featured in Daybook: The Journal of an Artist

yes...

to love someone is firstly to confess: i'm prepared to be devastated by you. by A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt

Sunken alcove in the garden