Las Flores Rotas

 Frits Thaulow, "Red Church Wall in Venice" (1894)From the rotting fish,from the lazy cats,beneath the squashed summer fruits,your glory grows:Maria della Salute, Ca d'Oro,Colleoni, Pallazo Ducale...I count my coins on the steps,place my ham on the dry breadand remember the Giorgionewith its fretful tattered cloudsbearing the title:   ...

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 Tadeusz Makowski, "Study of a nude (Female half-nude)" (1912).In front of the sombre mountains, a faint, lost ribbon of      rainbowAnd between us and it, the thunder;And down below, in the green wheat, the laborersStand like dark stumps, still in the green wheat.You are near to me, and...

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  Turner, "The fighting temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838 (1839)The gold stars are sleeping,The mirror-pond trembles,The dawn light comes creepingAnd heaven's net reddens.The birch-tree smiles sleepily,Her silk locks free-flowing,Green earrings are rustling,And silver dew glowing.Tall nettles by the fencingTheir bright pearls are flautingAnd...

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 Sarah Goodridge, "Beauty Revealed" (1828)"WHY should beauty endure,Once in its perfect actManifest and secure?"Although to-day retractThe breath that yesterdayInformed the body's fact,"Still from the angry claySome ripe significanceIs reaped and laid away,"Out of the husk of chanceDrawn clear, and purifiedOf earthy circumstance."So they said. I triedTo believe what...

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 Piero di Cosimo, "Portrait de femme dit de Simonetta Vespucci" (c. 1480)How have I labored?How have I not labored?To bring her soul to birth,To give theses elements a name and a centre!She is beautiful as the sunlight, and as fluid.She has no name, and no place.How have I...

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 Hans Baldung "Death and the Woman" (1520-25)IThe stars were wild that summer eveningAs on the low lake shore stood you and IAnd every time I caught your flashing eyeOr heard your voice discourse on anything It seemed a star went burning down the sky.I looked into your heart that...

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