SERPENTINE EYES

 

“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 ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2007.

---

© 2020 nightpoet all rights reserved

---

QUICK SKETCH

 

“I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague,

voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.”

 

~ Anaïs Nin ~

 

Digitally enhanced pixeleen image modeled in April 2001 and created in April 2020.

---

© 2020 nightpoet all rights reserved

---

LET US BE LOVERS TOGETHER

 

“Now you are a broken seal,

a scarlet stain upon the earth.”

 

~ Sappho ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo (detail) of street art on the Berlin Wall taken in January 2018.

---

© 2020 nightpoet all rights reserved

---

ELECTRIK WET

 

“Oh stay a while, and I will die with thee;

So shalt thou yield, and yet have conquered me.”

 

~ Thomas Kyd ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2001.

---

© 2020 nightpoet all rights reserved

---

NENSONSE

 

“Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.”

 

~ e. e. cummings ~

 

Digitally enhanced and coloured image created from a scan of a sketch purchased at Parisian flea market in May 2018.

---

© 2020 nightpoet all rights reserved

---

PASSION

 

“Those who live passionately teach us how to love.

Those who love passionately teach us how to live.”

 

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach ~

 

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

---

© 2020 nightpoet all rights reserved

---

THE BEAST WITH TWO HEADS

 

“My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it.”

 

~ Charles Baudelaire ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in February 2020. Photo courtesy of Ficks & Fertig Enterprises.

---

© 2020 nightpoet all rights reserved

---

LA CHAMBRE ROUGE

 

“Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry,

Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!”  

 

~ Arthur Rimbaud ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in February 2020.

---

© 2020 nightpoet all rights reserved

---

A PILLAR OF SOCIETY

 

“And so the wolf lay with the lamb.”

 

~ Nenia Campbell ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in January 2020.

---

© 2020 nightpoet all rights reserved

---

BLACK CLOUDS DANCING

 

“We don’t see things as they are, 

we see them as we are.”

 

~ Anaïs Nin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in January 2020.

---

© 2020 nightpoet all rights reserved

---