LOST IN THOUGHT

 

“Even in the loneliest moments I have been there for myself.”

 

~ Sanober Khan ~

 

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THE TIME OF TOUCHING

 

“Touch has a memory.”

 

~ John Keats ~

 

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BARÏRÏTU

 

“Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.”

 

~ Charles Baudelaire ~

 

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JOURS ÉTRANGES

 

“The nearer I come to the end of my days,

the more I am enabled to see that strange thing,

a life, and to see it whole.”

 

~ Simone de Beauvoir ~

 

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JANIE

 

“To love and win is the best thing;

to love and lose, the next best.”

 

~ William Thackeray ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original scan of a linoleum print (ca. 1971) by an unknown artist scanned in October 2019.

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The Poet

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ELLE DANSE AVEC DES MOTS

 

“I will have my serpent’s tongue –

my woman’s voice, my sexual voice, my poet’s voice.

I will overcome the tradition of silence.”

 

~ Gloria E. Anzaldúa ~

 

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LEFT BEHIND

 

“When a rose dies, a thorn is left behind.”

 

~ Ovid ~

 

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UNWRAPS THE COBWEBS

 

“Only the united beat of sex and the heart can create ecstasy.”

 

~ Anaïs Nin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in a Paris fleamarket in June 2019.

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NO BREEZE BREATHES

 

“Love is the first and most devious deceiver,

the most seductive delusion.”

 

~ J. Earp ~

 

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SOFT FEATHERED LIES

 

“Truthful words are not beautiful;

beautiful words are not truthful.”

“Les paroles sincères ne sont pas élégantes;

les paroles élégantes ne sont pas sincères.”

 

~ Lao Tzu ~

 

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