BitterGrace Notes

 CHAPLINESQUE by Hart Crane We make our meek adjustments, Contented with such random consolations As the wind deposits In slithered and too ...

  Giordano Bruno by Fidus , 1900 Someone will read as moral that the people of Rome or Warsaw haggle, laugh, make love as they pass by the ...

  Flamenco singers , Sonia Delaunay , 1916 Conventional wisdom says that people past their first youth stop listening to new music, and ther...

I've spent the pandemic year locked down with my 3 dogs, and let's just say it's been a mixed experience. I love my dogs, there...

All who have travelled this perishing life, Let us gather and wait for our healing. But time is no healer, And time too will die in the vani...

  When my sister died, from the head of my visio came offspring in the thousands, armed to the teeth, each its own vessel. My first, their m...

The Homecoming , Marianne von Werefkin (1860-1938) First of all, if you are not up for political discussion, I totally understand. It won...

  The Shame What will the shame be, what cost to pay. We are walking in a wood, wood of stones, boulders for trees. The sky is a black sudde...

The One Grief One grief there is, the helpmeet of my heart, That shall not from me till my days be sped, That walks beside me in sunshine an...

According to the listing at Wikimedia Commons, the photo above was made the night before Obama's swearing in on January 20, 2009. Since ...